Jan 15, 2021

Google Docs - Muti- Page Orientation, Smart Compose and Autocorrect

Last month an announcement from Google Workspaces indicated  Google Docs will be featuring multi-orientation layouts.  What this means is you will be able to use portrait and landscape in the same document using multiple pages.  Here is how it will work:

Change the orientation of a selection 

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Highlight the text or image that you want to change the orientation, Right click on the text or image.
  3. Select Change page to landscape or Change page to portrait. 
Change the orientation of a section or multiple sections 
  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Click where you want to create multiple sections.
  3. Go to Insert,  Break Section break.
  4. To change the orientation of a section, click File,  Page setup,  Apply To, Orientation.
    1. Set “Apply to” to “This section” if you would like to apply the page orientation to the selected section only or “This section forward” if you would like to apply the page orientation to this and all subsequent sections.
    2. Select the orientation to apply.
    3. Click OK
The other features which just came out are the Smart Compose and autocorrect within the comments section of Google Docs.  Those you should see sometime in the next couple of weeks.  

If you prefer a video here it is: