Figure 5: Word makes more effective use of the available display space in portrait orientation. About the Author. Brien Posey is a 22-time Microsoft MVP with decades of IT experience.

Ensure your iPad isn't locked in portrait orientation to avoid the Sidecar app rotation bug. Once SideCar is all set up, you then need to install BetterDisplay on your Mac and create a virtual screen.

Portrait orientation will show more of a Web page's contents. Getty Many newer computer displays allow you to rotate the screen to a portrait orientation, where the screen is taller than it is wide.

Portrait orientation produces a page that is longer than it is wide. The default margins are set at one inch for the standard 8.5” by 11” page.

This prevents interface elements and the reading view from rotating from portrait to landscape on an iPhone or from whatever your current orientation is to the other on an iPad. Tap it to turn it off.

I know that a lot of iPad users consider portrait orientation the best way to use the iPad. It takes all kinds! But I’m not one of those people.

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That way, portrait orientation lock will be disabled the moment any of the selected apps is opened, and enabled again when you close those apps. The Download Never miss a tech story.

On to the Design tab, tap on Orientation. Tap Portrait and see the slide in focus change to Portrait orientation. Use Portrait mode on iPhones. Either open an existing presentation or create one.