Not sure about you, but switching between my school desktop DELL and home Mac laptop is driving me crazy!!! I have also have different word processing software at each place - Microsoft Word at school and OpenOffice at home with different printers at each. My school printer sometimes won't print my documents because it doesn't recognize my fonts. I try my best to save everything as a PDF to Google Word so I don't have to run around with a flash drive, but I still bring my laptop to school...just in case! We also have art and music in our classrooms, meaning that sometimes our specials teachers are using our computers with the Promethean Board during my our preps. I'm not complaining because I know many schools don't provide teachers with printers, computers, or Promethean Boards. Anyway, here's a tip that will hopefully help you if you're in the same boat and need a quick reminder!
If you don't have Microsoft Office / Word and want a free option for word processing, try Openoffice.org. It gives you more options than Google Docs, such as being able to import fonts.
Here's how to change the page layout in OpenOffice.
Click Format from the toolbar --> Page
Find Orientation --> Click Landscape or Portrait --> OK
Here's how to change the page layout in OpenOffice:
Click File --> Page Setup
Click Portrait or Landscape --> OK
Here's how to change the page layout in Microsoft Word:
Click File --> Page Setup
Click File --> Page Setup
