moving pages in a document

[Guest]

This must be really simple, I will look daft...

I have a 2 page document (it was sent to me, I didn't create it). Page 1 is
in Landscape format, page 2 is Portrait. I need to swap the pages with each
other (so page 1 becomes page two and vice versa)

How do I do this? I tried pressing Return many times to move all text down
to create another page, then cut and paste the info, intending to delete the
spare page, but had trouble getting one page to be portrait and the other to
be landscape...

Any help appreciated.

 

[Jay Freedman]

This must be really simple, I will look daft...

I have a 2 page document (it was sent to me, I didn't create it).
Page 1 is in Landscape format, page 2 is Portrait. I need to swap the
pages with each other (so page 1 becomes page two and vice versa)

How do I do this? I tried pressing Return many times to move all text
down to create another page, then cut and paste the info, intending
to delete the spare page, but had trouble getting one page to be
portrait and the other to be landscape...

Any help appreciated.

Page orientation (portrait vs. landscape) is a property of sections, and
sections are created by inserting section breaks between them. The oddity
about section breaks is that the properties of a section are stored in the
section break at the *end* of the section, not at the beginning. All this
and more is covered at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.

You may also want to read
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm.