Pages and page setup problems

I love my mac and love pages but sometimes I wanna chuck it out the window.
Here is why - I have been working on my thesis and was inserting some table in the pages doc. No problem. Except that the tables are in horizontal layout/orientation while the doc is in vertical layout/orientation so the table doesnt fit in. Now on a PC I would to to page setup and change the page layout/orientation for that page only except it seems it doesnt work here. I change the layout/orientation for all pages or no pages. Same thing is if I want to have an envelope and a letter in the same document. Same thing in Word for mac. Which is kind of a problem as it means I have to create a template on my PC and then move it to my mac to work.
Am I missing something silly? Is there a trick I can do?

Sparky1979 wrote:
Which is kind of a problem as it means I have to create a template on my PC and then move it to my mac to work.
Sparky,
Creating a template in Word in an attempt to work around a program design choice in Pages would be a very bad option, with little chance of success.
A landscape page is a portrait page with the content rotated 90 degrees. I think that the only things in your Pages job that can't be rotated are the Header and Footer fields, and those probably are best left alone in this case anyway. So, here's the trick. Insert a table, make sure that it is Floating, not Inline, and then rotate it 90 degrees and adjust it's position on the page. You can edit the table either before or after you rotate it.
Similarly, envelopes could be included in the document by rotating text fields, but it's not clear to me what purpose it would serve since it would complicate printing.
Jerry

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http://www.vista4beginners.com/Move-user-files-folders-to-another-partition?page=1. I finally decided to do just 2 simple registry modifications described in the last post here
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Thinkpad T500 | Model 2081-CTO | Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53GHz, 1066MHz 3MB L2 Cache) | 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM | 15.4" WSXGA+ | ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 (256MB) | 250GB Hitachi HDD (5400rpm) | Bluetooth 2.1 | Integrated Camera | DVD Recordable UltraBay Slim | Intel Wifi Link 5100 | Sony 6-cell Li-Ion battery | Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1

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I tried a suggestion of resetting by following the instructions here. That did not work.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problems_printing_web_pages#Reset_printer

I just experienced this problem, and stumbled upon the cause and the fix. When I went to "File" and then "Print Preview" I was getting a "black" screen where the preview should have been. I tried the suggested fixes related to about:config printer settings and add-on's, etc... but it did not help.
Then, I looked at the "Page Set-up" when I was on the "Print Preview" page. The bottom margin (for whatever strange reason... have no clue) was set at a huge number of inches... like 43801.4 or some such. I changed it back to 0.3 inches... fixed it. Can print just fine now.
So... if all else fails: check your margin settings on page set-up.

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