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Portrait and landscape in one document

March 14, 2007 · 21 Comments

A relatively straightforward, but hopefully useful, Word tip. Sometimes you might want to include a page in landscape orientation, in the middle of a normal ‘portrait’ document – for example if you need to include a wide table or schedule of some sort. You can achieve this in Word by creating multiple sections in the document. Each section can have it’s own Page Setup settings. You can do this by using Insert, Break. But it is easier to let Word do the work for you as shown below:

Portrait and landscape - animation

 

 

To do this, position the cursor immediately before the place where the landscape section is to begin and choose File, Page Setup. In the ‘margins’ section, set the orientation to ‘landscape’ and from the ‘Apply to’ list choose ‘This point forward’:

word-portland-1.jpg

If you now look at a multi-page preview of your document you will see that the pages after the current cursor position are now in landscape orientation:

word-portland-2a.jpg

If you have your ‘non-printing’ characters turned on, then you will see the section break that has been automatically inserted:

Portrait and landscape - section break close up

If you need the document to revert back to portrait after the landscape section, you will need to click at the end of the landscape pages and use File, Page Setup to create another portrait section again from ‘this point forward’.

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