My cat stepped on a key or a combination of keys that have changed my display screen in portrait instead of landscape.

I left the lid of my laptop open to get something by mistake. My cat was sitting behind the laptop. When I came back, the display on my screen is oriented Portrait instead of the normal landscape orientation. I don't know how to put back to the landscape orientation of the display. Help!

My oeprating system is Profwssional of MS WIndows XP in laptop Lenovo - about now oled 3 years (not sure). IAM aged retired 69 year married Lady. I worked in mainframe computers before and just learned about the PC a few years before I retired. I feel comfortable with a PC using the Microsoft operating system. I like the XP and updgrade for the latest systems from MS for the PC. Please tell me what to do to put the display in ' landscape '. Now, in order to type, I have to turn the phone in the normal position. I then have to ttuns it on the side to see the screen properly and for the mouse works correctly... Help!

http://www.ehow.com/how_5925384_rotate-computer-screen-90-degrees.html

above says to hold down the CTRL, ALT + arrow key (in the direction of your screen to rotate)

hold simultaneously for 4 to 5 seconds

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