Change Page Orientation in mid-document for 1 page only

[Guest]

This is concerning Word in Office Standard 2007.

In Wordperfect 12 I have a 22 page document. All pages are Portrait EXCEPT
page 15 which is landscape. All pages before and after this one landscape
page are portrait.

I tried opening this document with Word with the intent of doing a "save
as", but it's pretty heavily formatted and I have a ton of Hyperlinks as
well. Opening it in Word just messed it up pretty bad, so I decided i'd
re-create it from scratch. I figure what better way to learn Word than doing
a .doc from scratch?

Well now i'm at the point where I have to make 1 page landscape and it won't
let me. I insert a new page and change the orientation to Landscape and it
changes the whole document.

Is there a way for me to change the orientation for this 1 page to Landscape
without effecting all preceeding and following pages?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See the first part of
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

After selecting the text you want in a landscape section, click the dialog
launcher (the tiny button at the right end of the group title) of the Page
Layout > Page Setup group. In the dialog, set the Apply To box to "Selected
text" and click the Landscape button, then OK.



There's a separate Orientation button in the Page Setup group, but that
button operates on whatever is currently chosen in the Apply To box even
though you can't see the dialog. Since that box defaults to "Whole
document", clicking the button without first visiting the dialog will
reorient the entire document even though something is selected.


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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

Sure. At the point where you want to the landscape page to be, insert two
Section Break-Next page breaks (Page Layout tab/Page Setup group/Breaks,
select Section Breaks-Next Page). Put your cursor between the two section
breaks and change the orientation to Landscape, then insert your text. The
Landscape will only affect that one page.

Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK

 

[Guest]

Thanks to everyone for your time and help. I'm at home now so I can't say
exactly what I clicked, but I got it working.

I was changing the orientation by clicking Landscape button on the ribbon.
When I clicked Margins Properties (or whatever it's called) and changed it in
there I still had the same problem. However, on the 2nd or 3rd try I noticed
a button that let me apply the changes to the whole document (this is the
default) OR the selected text. I had been making my changes and clicking OK
without changing that. Once I did, it not only changed the page I needed
changing, it left all others before it unchanged AND it even inserted a
second page (this one portrait) after the newly created Landscape page! W00t!

Again, thank you all for your time and help. This site is turning out to be
a life saver for me, and i'm sure glad it's an "active" one. GJ PEEPS!