Why do all my letters print in Landscape mode when I have the page formatted for portrait

All my letters are printing in landscape mode even though I have the page formatted for portrait. Print preview shows portrait mode, but when I select print it shows & prints in landscape. Letters are saved in the .odt format. I’m using version 5.4.0.3. On another computer that I use letters print correctly. Is something wrong with the installation on this one computer?

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MANY MANY PEOPLE have been troubled by this longstanding LibraOffice bug … including my spouse at 2:00 am.

Here is yet another workaround, which I found by exhaustive testing.

The chief advantage of this workaround is that it requires NO changes to the document itself.

• MacOS: works for both 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and 10.12.6 (Sierra)

• LibraOffice: works for both 5.3.6 and 5.4.2

  1. Call up the print dialog for a “Letter” text document by the usual method, namely “File” → “Print”

  2. If necessary, select the menu item “LibreOffice” (other choices in this menu include “Layout”, etc.)

  3. Two tabs will be visible now: namely “LibreOffice Writer” and “More”; select the tab “More”

  4. Now a menu will be visible, whose choices include “All Pages”.

  5. (Here’s the “magic”) select ANY menu item OTHER than “All Pages” … then reselect “All Pages”.

The net effect SHOULD be nil … but instead, this sequence will trigger a refresh of the entire dialog box … and the refreshed box will display a now-correct “Portrait” mode.

Problem solved … but alas, this fix must be applied anew for each print step.