Is it really true you can't mix page orientations in a W4W document?

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From: John R. Burgoyne
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 1990 01:10

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In Word Perfect we often have a document which consists of a letter 
preceded by an envelope addressed to the person receiving the letter. 
 
The envelope is landscape mode, envelope sized paper. The letter is 
portrait mode, normal 8.5" x 11" size.  
 
When printed, the printer prompts you for the envelope, prints it, then 
prints the letter, switching page size and paper orientation happily. 
 
But it seems like no Windows program could do this, since orientation must 
be set through the proverbial "Printer Setup" option. 
 
This is not too flexible. 
 
I tried to write a W4W macro to do this, but the macro stops when it gets 
to the system level menu regarding printer setup. 
 
This is an important issue for serious document preparation. Many 
documents need to switch back and forth between portrait and landscape 
modes.  
 
Somebody please tell me I'm missing something and tell me what it is! 
 
Robert

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