nickravo1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
> I like the Mac monitors, they are rectangular, and excellent for Excel
> spreadsheets, as they are nice and wide. But sometimes, I have a long
> vertical do***ent in front of me and I just want to turn that monitor
> 90 degrees and read my screen that way. Is there a monitor that allows
> me to do this, and what do I need to do to my system configuration to
> use a monitor both vertically as well as horizontally?
My Dell Ultrasharp 24" monitor can be rotated.
The computer doesn't know I've done that, so I have to go into System
Preferences > Displays and tell it to rotate the image.
The rotation capability is dependent on the video hardware and drivers -
some Mac models might not be able to rotate the image. You can check for
this by plugging in any generic monitor. (It isn't offered for an
internal display on a laptop, and possibly not for external displays
which are known by Apple to be unrotatable, such as Apple's own ones.)
The option is shown as a "Rotate" menu with choices of Standard, 90
degrees, 180 degrees or 270 degrees. The direction of rotation is to
compensate for a clockwise rotation of the monitor, thus the "90
degrees" setting rotates the image by 90 degrees anticlockwise.
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David Empson
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