Choosing landscape or portrait page orientation usually changes the position of the pages of the entire document. Let's figure out how to make selective orientation for one or more pages.

Most often, to work with text, the vertical page orientation is used, which in the MS Word editor is called portrait. However, it is often necessary to add illustrations or large tables to the document, which are more convenient to arrange horizontally, that is, in landscape orientation.

To achieve this within a single file, and not create additional ones for applications, you need to create sections, that is, break the document into logical parts. This can be done manually or automatically.

Automatic Partitioning

The easiest option to take a table or illustration in Word to landscape orientation as part of book design is to select the corresponding part of the document with the mouse, and then go to the page settings settings. The corresponding icon is on the Layout menu tab (or Page Layout in earlier versions of Word).

In the "Orientation" area, select the landscape position, then in the "Apply" area from the drop-down list, instead of the value "to the entire document", select "to the selected text." After pressing the OK button, sections before and after the selection will be automatically created in your document, and the selection itself will be on a separate page in landscape orientation.

Similarly, you can add inserts not only at the end of the document, like appendices, but anywhere, and in any number. For example, when writing a book, you can periodically insert sections with illustrations. At the same time, you need to remember that if you use headers and footers and pagination, then they can be deleted or changed in sections with landscape orientations, for which you first need to unlink between sections.

Manual addition of sections

Automatic creation of sections in Word to change page orientation is not always convenient. Therefore, it is important to be able to add partitioning by sections yourself. To do this, in the menu tab "Layout" (aka "Page Layout") there is a button "Breaks". By pressing it, seven options for gaps are offered in the drop-down window. Of these, the last four are grouped under "Section Breaks". They are what we need.

The most commonly used break option is "Next Page". In the case of making a part of the document in landscape orientation, it is this one that needs to be selected. If this is an application area at the end of the text, then it will be enough to create only one break with a section, if this is the middle of the document, after which it is necessary to use portrait orientation again, then there should be two page breaks with the creation of a new section - at the beginning of the area for horizontal pages and at its end.

Having created the sections, we also go to the “Page Setup” menu, where we select the desired orientation, and from the “Apply” drop-down list, select the value “to the current section”, which was not there before, since the sections were not created.

When working with text, it is often necessary to change the page orientation from portrait to landscape or vice versa. AT text editor Word, this is done in a few clicks and usually causes no problems for users.

But, if it is necessary in a document, but only on one specific page, then this is already much more complicated and not all users know how this is done.

In this article, we will consider just such an option. Here you will learn how to do it in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.

Change the orientation of a single page using section breaks

If you only need to change the orientation of one page in a Word document, then the easiest option is to use section breaks. Such a gap must be set before and after the page for which you want to change the orientation. After the page is separated from the rest of the document by breaks, you can change its orientation to landscape or portrait, depending on what you specifically need.

Now that you are familiar with the theory, let's get down to practice. Let's assume you already have Text Document and there is one of the pages for which you need to change the orientation. In order to do this, you must first place the cursor at the end of the previous page, that is, immediately above the page you need. After placing the cursor, you need to go to the "Page Layout" tab, click on the "Breaks" button and select "Next Page". This way you will set a section break before the page whose orientation you want to change.

Next, you need to place the cursor at the end of the next page, that is, at the end of the page whose orientation you want to change, and insert a section break again using the "Breaks - Next Page" button. Thus, you will separate the desired page from the rest of the document. In order to make sure that the gap is set and it is exactly where you want it, go to the "Home" tab and turn on the display of all signs there.

After enabling this feature, you will be able to see non-printable characters (spaces, indents, and section breaks). The screenshot below shows what the section break should look like. If breaks are installed incorrectly, you can remove them and reinstall them.

Once both section breaks are in place, you can start reorienting the page. To do this, place the cursor on the page whose orientation you want to change, go to the "Page Layout" tab, click on the "Orientation" button and select one of the options.

If you did everything right, then the orientation should change only for one of the pages. If the orientation has changed for several pages, then you need to check how the section breaks are placed.

Changing the orientation of a single page through page options

There is another way to change the orientation of one page in Word. To use this method, you need to place the cursor on the page that precedes the one whose orientation you want to change. In other words, the cursor needs to be set one page up. After the cursor is set, open the Page Layout tab and click on the Page Setup button (or open Page Setup by double-clicking on the document ruler).

This should open the Page Setup window. Here you need to change the orientation of the document, select the application option "To the end of the document" and save the settings using the "Ok" button.

As a result, all pages that are below the one where the cursor was placed will change their orientation. Next, you need to place the cursor on the page whose orientation you want to change, and again change the orientation of all sheets until the end of the document. Only this time you need to choose the initial orientation.

As a result of these manipulations, you will change the orientation of only one page of the Word document.

When creating multi-page documents in the Word text editor, a number of users may be faced with the need to present a number of document pages in portrait orientation, and another in landscape orientation (especially when it comes to materials that include various diagrams, graphs, and so on). At the same time, an attempt to change the orientation desired page totally changes the orientation of all pages in the document, which the user does not need at all. In this article I will tell you how to make one book page another landscape page in Word, and what methods exist for this.

How to make one book page another landscape in Word - ways

If you need to create one book page and another landscape page in Word, then I recommend using a number of methods, which I will outline below. At the same time, I note that these methods work with versions of MS Word 2007 and higher, and if someone has older versions of a text editor, I recommend that you abandon mastodon programs and install a more modern version of MS Word. So, let's move on to listing the necessary tools.

Method 1. Select the desired text

So how to make landscape orientation one page in Word? If you have multiple pages of a document in portrait orientation but want to present some text from this document in landscape form, then follow these steps:

The desired text will be transferred to a separate page in landscape format, and you will receive a visual example of how to make one book page another landscape in Word. If you need to reduce the font on the computer, the instruction was described by me.

Method 2. Pagination

An alternative to the first method is pagination of the document you need. So, if you didn’t manage to make one landscape page and another book page in the Word in the first way, then do the following.

Let's say you have text for five pages in a book layout, and you need to make the second and fourth sheets of the landscape form. Proceed as follows:

Starting from the second page, all pages became landscape.

1. Now we need to make the third book page in Word. Place the cursor on the upper left edge of the third page, enter the page settings again, but select "Landscape" and "Until the end of the document" there.
2. The third and subsequent pages will be landscape. Now we again go to the fourth page and, using the same algorithm, make it a book page.
3. Then we go to the fifth and make it landscape. I think the essence of the action is clear to the reader.
4. As a result, we get the following result.

How to make one page landscape another book in a Word document [video]

You can see how these methods visually look in the video below.

The methods I have listed will help the reader with the answer to the question "How to make one book page another landscape page in Word." In most cases, the first method is enough, which effectively places the text you need on the page of the orientation you need. If you want to mark up your document in advance, then create the required number of pages in advance (the “Insert” tab - “Blank Page”), and then use method No. 2, and your idea will be effectively implemented.

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