Update: The excess space above/below the headers and footers was related to the track changes view. I still don’t know what caused that space issue - maybe I’ll have time to investigate the reason next week when some of my deadline pressure is off.
#Landscape orientation in word for one page mac pdf
But I just didn’t have the time to investigate, so I opened the document on my other computer in Word 2010 and re-created the PDF from the default settings and it worked - all that excess space disappeared. I only did a couple of tests to see what was causing it. The landscape section that was misbehaving now worked fine! So I changed the other incorrectly defined landscape section in the document and re-did the PDF.Įverything was right with my world again! -) And my work colleagues were very happy.Īctually, it wasn’t quite right… I found that the PDFs I generated had a lot of excess space above the headers and below the footers throughout the document no matter which PDF creation method I used.
The next test was to save the document and re-create the PDF. I then went to the Paper tab to change it back to A4, but it had automatically changed to A4 after I switched to Landscape: Just in case this custom page size was the cause of the odd PDF, I changed the page orientation setting on the Margins tab to Landscape. One of the authors had set a Custom size for the paper size and defined a width and height that matched a landscape A4 page, thinking they were doing the right thing, but in hindsight they weren’t - it was a case of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing! The first thing I noticed was that Portrait was selected, not Landscape, even though Landscape was showing as selected on the Orientation button on the ribbon. It looked like a landscape section and when I checked the Orientation options on the Page Layout tab in Word, it said it was Landscape, but when I opened the Page Setup dialog box, all was revealed. What appeared to be a landscape section wasn’t. So I decided to take a closer look at the Word document, and there I found the problem. In fact, for some tests, I just made it worse! I tried several things - re-creating the PDF using Acrobat, using Word’s PDF option, fiddling with the settings in Acrobat etc. One of my work colleagues sent me a Word 2007 document and its resulting PDF and asked me to see if I could figure out what was happening with two landscape sections.īoth sections looked like this in the PDF, though they looked perfectly fine in the Word document - notice how the two pages with the maps have headers and footers going off the page and that the page is the same dimensions as the Portrait-oriented page above:
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