Google Drawing: Landscape vs Portrait

When working with Google Drawing, you may find yourself wondering how to change the orientation of your pages from portrait to landscape and vice versa. In this article, we'll explore the process of creating a new page style and applying it to your document.

To create a new page style, go to the 'Page Style' tab in your Google Drawing editor. Click on the 'New Style' button and enter a name for your new style, such as 'My Landscape'. The new page style will initially inherit all properties from the selected page style. To change the page orientation for all pages that share the same page style, you'll need to create a new page style based on an existing one.

One important thing to note is that unlike character styles or paragraph styles, page styles don't have a hierarchy. This means that if you change the source style later, the new page style won't automatically inherit those changes.

You can either change the 'Default' page style for your current document or define your own page styles and apply them to specific parts of your text. Page styles define more page properties beyond just orientation, including headers and footers, and page margins.

To change the page orientation only for some pages, you can select the paper format option under 'Page Properties' and choose either portrait or landscape. If your document consists of multiple pages with different page styles, you'll need to apply each page style separately.

Finally, keep in mind that changes you make to a page property will only affect the pages that use the current page style. This means if you have an existing document with different page styles applied to different pages, you'll need to adjust each page style individually.

By following these steps and understanding how page styles work in Google Drawing, you can easily change the orientation of your pages from portrait to landscape or vice versa, giving you more control over the layout of your document.

Google drawing landscape vs portrait