A Long-Awaited Feature Finally Arrived in Docs!

Google Docs has for a while now seemed to be the stepchild of the Google file editing tools: all the other tools got many bells and whistles to make them comparable with their older Microsoft counterparts: Google Slides received easy-to-use cross-linking features; Google Sheets gained more and more formulas, connectors, and a very powerful version of the Explore feature which makes data wrangling and visualization easier. Google Forms evolved. Even Google Drawings got some all grown-up accessories.

But not Google Docs. Docs has long been a trusty, yet simple word processing tool that never got super cool features. Until now.

Recently Google Docs has started adding features. One of the features that has been really sought after by Google Workspace (and Gmail.com) users I work with is the ability to have a mixed page orientation (portrait and landscape pages mixed) in a single doc.

In case you can't tell :), seeing this feature roll out has made my day! So I wanted to make sure you know about it, too.

I know many a person who said that they wanted to love Docs for its simplicity, but they needed Word for creating files with mixed orientation pages. Now those users can do that in Docs.

Tips for end-users and small businesses:

Now that this mixed page orientation feature is live in Google Docs, let's see how to apply it:

1. In a Google Doc, select the text, table, or image where you want to change the orientation of the page.

2. Right-click (on a PC) or 2-finger click (on a Mac) and

3. Choose Change page to landscape/portrait from the menu that pops up.

OR

1. In a Google Doc, select the text, table, or image where you want to change the orientation of the page.

2. Go to the File menu,

3. Select Page setup and change the orientation of the page. 

💎 (Using this method, you can also change margins for part of a document.) 

Tips for mid-size companies and large enterprises:

As this feature can be very useful in simplifying processes and will reduce the need to create multiple files with different page styles, you will want to make sure that your users are trained on how to use the mixed page orientation feature.

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