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Totally agree portrait orientation for report exports should be a basic option - aligns it with standard reporting for boards etc.

Also strangely, until March 2025 my report would print portrait. Now exactly the same report only prints landscape.

Considering there is no way to change the width of the columns in a report, there should be the option to change the orientation.

There is a lot of white space on the exported report and it causes wasted pages (If I press Ctrl+P to print while viewing the report in Xero it is 2 pages, but when exported as PDF/Excel it becomes 5 pages)

I would also like to be able to customise each page of my reports to be landscape or portrait!

So if I have four columns, the layout will always be portrait, no matter that those columns contain lots of text that would be better displayed in wider columns on a landscape page?

I just did a quick mockup in Word of what I mean, presenting the same table in portrait and in landscape.

Xero, to not have any plans to address this request is ridiculous do be honest. All these comments and you just ignore the requests? You have so much effort spend in allowing users to customize reports, which is terrific. I actually appreciate and use the customization features on the reporting screens. Its awesome and so very flexible.

Yet to not allow a user to the space on a page better by switching to landscape when exporting to PDF seems baffling. I send reports to users all the time, and these exported reports look awful...amateurish if I dare say so...

My custom report is forced into a vertical orientation. I have tons of white space between columns on the page, yet my description column wraps to two lines because the report is forced into a vertical orientation when a horizontal orientation would (a) be more legible and (b) would allow me and my recipients to print on one page instead of multiple (and yes, some people do still print reports).

I also work across countries, and the switch between US Letter and A4 would be helpful (and something that generally and expected option in any program these days).

Xero team -- you seem to focus on fancy updates but are loosing sight of the basics, like report legibility and printing. And seem to be ignoring the requests of your users. Please fix this.

Hi Kelly, I have a custom report that doesn't automatically change to landscape. How to I fix this please?

Has this been addressed yet? I've just created a custom P&L by tracking category that would comfortably fit on one portrait page but it will only show as landscape. Would like to be able to change the orientation of the custom report but can't see that I have that option.

We would love to be able to customize the report printing to portrait or landscape. It would also be nice to be able to resize columns to stretch or shrink to our need.

Allow manual selection of portrait or landscape layout for Budget Variance report. You currently need to have 8 or more columns beside the GL Account column for the report to automatically change orientation from portrait to landscape. 7 columns squashed on to portrait layout causes textwrap. It would be great to have the option to manually select portrait or landscape orientation when editing the layout.

I find it strange that some of my clerks get to print the Aged Payables Detail in portrait and yet I can only do this in landscape. Which makes me believe there is a way to do this, but not sure what is triggering the layout when doing a PDF. I have checked that the printer settings are portrait yet it is still doing this in landscape

You've got to be joking, how difficult can it be to have a portrait print-out. I have always been able to export my reports to a PDF in portrait format. Has this changed??? When are you going to do something about this. Not happy.

Come on Xero - this surely cannot be that difficult??
It is ridiculous not to have the option for printing PDF reports as portrait or landscape. Can this matter please be given some priority level, or at least a response from Xero as to what they are doing about it?

Oh Come on Xero - it's been 8 (EIGHT!!) YEARS since this feature was first requested - do something about it already!

This functionality needs to be added to ALL reports, especially variance analysis in the Profit and Loss.

My custom Account Transactions report displays in Landscape format but exports to pdf in portrait. Why? Is it possible to customise the report to export to landscape so the report i present looks the same as the way i customised it?

The ability to work on reports - it is so long winded to print them landscape.
Also, if you print double sided, it doesn't give you the optin to flip on long or short edge.
Much easier to work on in portrait format

LAYOUT!

LAYOUT - can you please add an option that would allow to choose a layout - horizontal or vertical and this would automatically allow for the full text to be captured rather than cutting it to nearest row margin.
Some reports i.e. contact activity reports/statements don't even allow basic customisation and do not generate sufficient details in them!
Thanks

I commented on this matter 28th February 2023, over a year ago and nothing has been done. This is not just an idea, this is a very functional requirement. It beggars belief that Xero has not moved on this matter. The excuse that a report can be generated in a spreadsheet ignores the time constraints business people work under. Come on Xero, play the game and get it done.

One of my reports came out on Landscape today! Balance Sheet. Do you think I can replicate? While to P&L printed out on Portrait? Please explain.