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I noticed that OneNote always displays PDF's sideways after inserting them using the File Printout command. I read some discussions where MS tried to say it had something to do with the printer driver in Adobe, etc., etc. I don't understand why I have to install a 3rd party program (Onetastic) which does plenty of good things, but I really only use it for the rotate PDF menu that it provides. Did the MS engineers just get too tired to include this very basic, totally necessary feature?
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I figured this out. This person unknowingly had Onetastic installed on her PC.
OneNote can rotate regular images but doesn't have the ability to rotate printouts, unless you are using OneNote 2007 notebook format, in which case printouts are stored as regular images. So that PC either is using 2007 format or has Onetastic installed.
We have this same "flipping" problem in my office. However, we have one PC that we are able to rotate PDF files printed to OneNote. We all run the same versions of Office. Do you have an idea of why one PC can do this and 10 others cannot?
Hi Omer, thought you were on to something with printing from Adobe - but all it does is rotate the "paper"; the picture on it stays sideways. Rats!
Will check out Onetastic I guess.
Regards, Peter
As someone who colaborates with others in shared OneNote files with OneDrive, it would be great if microsoft added a "rotate printout" feature.
So many people are inserting printouts in the wrong orientation and then I have to go find the original file and re-insert it.
Please microsoft, fix this.
Using OneNote 2010 at work and 2013 at home.