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Working with the Page Setup Options 281 Getting the lay of the landscape
The drop-down menu attached to the Orientation button in the Page Setup group of the Page Layout tab of the Ribbon contains two options:
✦ Portrait (the default), where the printing runs parallel to the short edge of the paper
✦ Landscape, where the printing runs parallel to the long edge of the paper
Because many worksheets are far wider than they are tall (such as budgets or sales tables that track expenditures across all 12 months), you may
find that their worksheets page better if you switch the orientation from the normal portrait mode (which accommodates fewer columns on a page because the printing runs parallel to the short edge of the page) to land- scape mode.
In Figure 5-7, you can see the Print screen in the Backstage view with the first page of a report in landscape mode in the Page Layout view. For this report, Excel can fit three more columns of information on this page in landscape mode than it can in portrait mode. Therefore, the total page count for this report decreases from ten pages in portrait mode to six pages in landscape mode.
Figure 5-7:
A landscape mode report in Page Layout view.
Book II Chapter 5
Printing Worksheets