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 document 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?

In article 
<65b9a9e8-d416-4a35-b5c6-89690836c66c@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
 "nickravo1@gmail.com" <nickravo@gmail.com> 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 document 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?



Radius used to make one but I am unsure.  The one I had was a longgggg 
time back at work.

DMK

D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> In article 
> <65b9a9e8-d416-4a35-b5c6-89690836c66c@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
>  "nickravo1@gmail.com" <nickravo@gmail.com> 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 document 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?
> 
> 
> 
> Radius used to make one but I am unsure.  The one I had was a longgggg 
> time back at work.
> 

That was the Radius Pivot, IIRC, and it was around 20 years ago.

Paul

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:21:27 -0700 (PDT), "nickravo1@gmail.com"
<nickravo@gmail.com> 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 document 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?

I turned my 2nd monitor sideways, pulled up standard Leopard settings,
and told it that 2nd monitor was sideways.   It worked with no
problem.

D. Kirkpatrick <sunclad@sunclad.com> 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 document 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?
> 
> Radius used to make one but I am unsure.  The one I had was a longgggg
> time back at work.

They're back. Samsung and LG have monitors that pivot, and there may be
other brands as well. The Displays pref panel in OS X, going at least as
far back as somewhere in 10.4.x, supports rotating the picture, so it's
not even necessary to have a driver to support a specific model.

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nickravo1@gmail.com <nickravo@gmail.com> 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 document 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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In article 
<65b9a9e8-d416-4a35-b5c6-89690836c66c@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
 "nickravo1@gmail.com" <nickravo@gmail.com> 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 document 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?

I've got a Dell 1708FP in portrait mode attached to my MacBook Air. I'm 
not sure that all versions of Mac OS X and all video cards support 
rotation, however. But if the card does support it, just use the Rotate 
popup menu in the Displays system preference pane.

(And yes, I once owned a Radius Pivot or three.)

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