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Is your monitor landscape or potrait?   [Edit]

Survey period: 30 Jan 2012 to 6 Feb 2012

Monitors are usually oriented with the width longer than the height. Yet we work with long, narrow documents. Does this make sense?

OptionVotes% 
All my monitors are landscape.1,10779.47
I use a mix of landscape and portrait.15611.20
All my monitors are portrait.433.09
My monitors are square.876.25



 
GeneralRe: It's not like you have a choice Pin
jan lucas30-Jan-12 22:24
jan lucas30-Jan-12 22:24 
GeneralTypo Pin
Ravi Bhavnani30-Jan-12 2:09
professionalRavi Bhavnani30-Jan-12 2:09 
GeneralOnly one Pin
Mario Majčica30-Jan-12 1:48
professionalMario Majčica30-Jan-12 1:48 
GeneralRe: Only one Pin
Ravi Bhavnani30-Jan-12 2:12
professionalRavi Bhavnani30-Jan-12 2:12 
GeneralRe: Only one Pin
snorkie30-Jan-12 5:19
professionalsnorkie30-Jan-12 5:19 
GeneralRe: Only one Pin
Mario Majčica30-Jan-12 5:22
professionalMario Majčica30-Jan-12 5:22 
GeneralI'm an old square. Pin
Henry Minute30-Jan-12 0:35
Henry Minute30-Jan-12 0:35 
GeneralOne of each Pin
chriselst29-Jan-12 23:43
chriselst29-Jan-12 23:43 
I have the left in landscape and this is the 'main' monitor where I do most of my work.

The right is in portrait, and I mainly use that for Outlook, and for 'reference' documents.

I started this a few months ago, by balancing an old monitor on it's side when I upgraded to Outlook 2010 and realised you could no longer hide email headers (the option is still there, but the functionality has been disabled) so there was precious little room left for the list and the body.

Since doing it I found it very useful for lots of other stuff, such as xml files which I often have to work with at the moment, or lists of stuff that I am working through, as well as pdf / docs I am working against.
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modified 30-Jan-12 6:55am.

GeneralA work of art... Pin
Mehdi Gholam29-Jan-12 21:02
Mehdi Gholam29-Jan-12 21:02 
GeneralRe: A work of art... Pin
koolprasad200330-Jan-12 0:58
professionalkoolprasad200330-Jan-12 0:58 
GeneralIf you need to have your monitor in portrait mode it's to small. Pin
Jörgen Andersson29-Jan-12 20:35
professionalJörgen Andersson29-Jan-12 20:35 
GeneralRe: If you need to have your monitor in portrait mode it's to small. Pin
John M. Drescher30-Jan-12 3:22
John M. Drescher30-Jan-12 3:22 
GeneralRe: If you need to have your monitor in portrait mode it's to small. Pin
Paul M Watt30-Jan-12 20:25
mentorPaul M Watt30-Jan-12 20:25 
GeneralTwo 19' Square LCD's - Old is better than new. Pin
R. Erasmus29-Jan-12 20:01
R. Erasmus29-Jan-12 20:01 
GeneralRe: Two 19' Square LCD's - Old is better than new. Pin
TorstenH.29-Jan-12 23:04
TorstenH.29-Jan-12 23:04 
GeneralRe: Two 19' Square LCD's - Old is better than new. Pin
DaveAuld29-Jan-12 23:47
professionalDaveAuld29-Jan-12 23:47 
GeneralDepend on work to do Pin
koolprasad200329-Jan-12 19:50
professionalkoolprasad200329-Jan-12 19:50 
GeneralRe: Depend on work to do Pin
Prerak Patel30-Jan-12 6:00
professionalPrerak Patel30-Jan-12 6:00 
GeneralLandscape for code Pin
Amol_B29-Jan-12 19:28
professionalAmol_B29-Jan-12 19:28 
GeneralLandscape, because I like to view documents side by side on the same monitor. PinPopular
wizardzz29-Jan-12 18:46
wizardzz29-Jan-12 18:46 

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