# Rotating a Document

You can rotate a DocuWorks document. Perform this operation while the thumbnails are displayed. The same procedures can be applied when rotating a DocuWorks binder, DocuWorks container, or PDF documents.
This topic describes the following:

- Rotating a document
- Rotating the front page

## Rotating a document

You can change the orientation of a document by rotating it as follows:
Procedure
1.
Select one or multiple documents, and select the desired rotation angle and direction from [Rotate] in the [Document] menu.
The document is rotated as specified. If you rotate a binder, all the documents included in it are rotated.

## Rotating the front page

You can rotate just the front page of a document.
Procedure
1.
Select one or multiple documents, and select the desired rotation angle and direction from [Rotate Front Page] in the [Page] menu.
The front page is rotated as specified. For a binder, only the front page is rotated as well.

## Precautions for rotating a document

- The rotation function cannot be used for the following types of documents:

- DocuWorks files with annotations of Link, OLE, Date Stamp, Received Stamp, Title, Date/Time, Cloud Callout, or a grouped annotation pasted*1
- DocuWorks protected documents*1
- DocuWorks signed documents*1
- Secured PDF files
- Signed PDF files
- Files other than DocuWorks files and PDF documents

*1 You can still rotate the page image of such documents temporarily by using Viewer.

- As for PDF documents, the following restrictions apply:

- If you rotate a PDF document that has been optimized for Fast Web View, the rotated PDF document is no longer optimized for Fast Web View.
- If processing takes more than an hour, processing is timed out and canceled.