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Word 2007 Practice: How to Make One Page Out of Many Landscape

March 20th, 2008 | by Loren |

In a long Word document you might need to have one or more pages that are a different orientation. Typically, most print documents are created in a portrait orientation. Being able to make one or more pages landscape allows you to insert something like a large table or chart that would be easier to view as landscape.

If you have a longer document to practice on, skip the first steps.

Create a Long Document to Practice On

Type =rand(12,5), then Enter. Then push Ctrl +A (to select everything), and on your Ribbon, in the Home tab, Styles group, click Change Styles, then Style Set, then Word 2007. This should give you two pages of text to practice on. (The Word 2007 Style Set turned on some paragraph spacing, just makes it easier to see the paragraphs.)

Create the Landscape Page

  1. Move your cursor to the point where the landscape page will be the next page. If you are using the practice document from the above steps, go to the end of the last full paragraph on the bottom of the first page.

  2. In the Page Layout tab, Page Setup group, click the Insert Page and Section Breaks button, then click Next Page in the Section Breaks list.
  3. Enter once.
  4. Insert another Next Page Section Break, following the steps in Step 2. The landscape page will be between the section breaks.
  5. Make sure your cursor is in between the section breaks by turning on the paragraph marks. (Home tab, Paragraph group, ¶)

  6. In the Page Layout tab, Page Setup group, click Orientation and choose Landscape.
  7. Insert your table or whatever your landscape content is into the page. If it is longer than a page, a new landscape page will be inserted immediately after the one you just made.


More About Section Breaks

  • Sections are numbered – the status bar shows the number of the section break where the cursor is. This document would have a Section 1, Section 2, and Section 3. A document with no section breaks would only have a Section: 1.
  • To move to a specific section, double-click the Section button on the Status Bar. Under Go to what: click Section, then enter a section number, click Go To to go to the beginning of each section. This can be a quick way to find section breaks.
  • To remove section breaks, turn on the paragraph marks, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the section break and delete.

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  1. 40 Responses to “Word 2007 Practice: How to Make One Page Out of Many Landscape”

  2. By Mark on Jan 19, 2010 | Reply

    Since you’re introducing section breaks, remember to correctly re-configure page numbering.

    Assuming you have inserted one landscape page using the method above, you end up having 3 sections (one before the landscape page, one of the landscape page, and the rest).

    Go to the footer (or where the numbering is in your doc), select the number and click on the “header&footer” ribbon–>Page Number–>Format Page Number–>Continue from previous section.

    Repeat what above for the third section.

    Cheers.

  3. By Kenny on Jan 12, 2010 | Reply

    Works, just note that any headers or footers will not be replicated as it’s now of a different section. So do take extra notice especially when dealing with page numbers.

  4. By KP on Dec 21, 2009 | Reply

    While using Word 2007, suddenly an arrow started appearing after the numbers while numbering.
    1.-> hsh
    2. ->jdjd

    Please suggest me the ways to remove this ARROW.

  5. By Krishnan on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply

    Excellent Tutorial!

  6. By Yassin on Dec 8, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks, helped me alot, clear guide, Once again THANK YOU

  7. By Andrea on Dec 3, 2009 | Reply

    Wow thanks! That was so easy to do.

  8. By Someone on Nov 22, 2009 | Reply

    Thax!Awesome tip

  9. By Ken on Nov 12, 2009 | Reply

    Sweet, thank you very much. This will make my work look much more professional now.

  10. By sfmraja on Nov 4, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks a lot for this tip. At last i found it how to do this.It works.

  11. By Garrett Griffin on Sep 27, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you very much for this! Exactly what I was looking for. Was able to change margins, page size, orientation — everything, and all I needed was the section break tip :-) .

    Thanks again!

  12. By Rahimi Zaeem on Sep 24, 2009 | Reply

    That was great.

    Thanks

  13. By Mark on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks for this AWESOME tip! It was exactly what I was looking for :)

  14. By Chris on Sep 9, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you…so much…

  15. By Gerri Maynard on Sep 3, 2009 | Reply

    Hi, I’ve been trying to change one page of a portrait document, to landscape, per the instructions above. Does this only work for new documents that are being created? It doesn’t seem to work with my existing document. When I try to change the one page…all the pages change.

  16. By Harsh on Aug 25, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks, it worked really well. I figured many work around but they always mess up :( . Thanks for such a great tip. :)

  17. By Alan on Aug 19, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks! I went through a year at the office messing around with this.

  18. By leonidas on Aug 7, 2009 | Reply

    thanks a lot mate! it really works

  19. By Amruta on Aug 4, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks so much.. It really helped!

  20. By Susie on Jun 17, 2009 | Reply

    I am using Windows Vista, Microsoft Word. It prints one page portrait and the next page landscape. I can’t seem change anything to make all the pages print in portrait mode. If I print one page at a time, they all print portrait. Any idea how to fix this?

  21. By waqas on Jun 9, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks a lot..

  22. By Mike on May 30, 2009 | Reply

    When I inserted landscape pages into a mostly portrait document, the header on the following portrait page which was unlinked anyway became large. The margins and the header sizes are correct. Any suggestions?

  23. By Alex on May 22, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you!

  24. By Alex on May 11, 2009 | Reply

    Great advice, thank you!

  25. By Andrew on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply

    Amazingly helpful! Thank you so much

  26. By Attila on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you a thousand times! Really helpful and works like a charm!

  27. By iSuha on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you for this post, it really useful

  28. By Annie on Feb 25, 2009 | Reply

    Thank yoooooou! This has been a big help for the formating of my dissertation!

  29. By Stewart on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply

    That is such awesome advice!!!
    Been trying to do this for ages!

    Regards
    Stewart

  30. By Emlyn Clay on Dec 30, 2008 | Reply

    Many thanks. That was a lucid set of instructions for a problem I took for granted in previous versions of Word.

    I’m miffed as to why they changed it.

  31. By Beth G on Dec 6, 2008 | Reply

    This worked perfectly! Thanks so much for the tip.

  32. By Loren on Dec 4, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Beth – That’s a good question. You can change the paper size in Word 2007 through the Page Layout tab, and in the Page Setup group, click Size. If you scroll down the list, you’ll see Ledger, which is 11″ x 17″. Hope that helps!

  33. By Beth G on Dec 4, 2008 | Reply

    Does anyone know if it is possible to create a larger document in Word than the standard 8.5 X 11? I would like to create a document that is 11X17.

  34. By Adrian on Nov 19, 2008 | Reply

    If you want a less complicated approach, just go to the Page Layout tab and click open the dialog box for Page Setup (the little button on the lower right of the box). There you can choose a landscape orientation as previous versions of office, “from this point forward” and that’s it!

  35. By Rob on Sep 16, 2008 | Reply

    New office is confusing. really helped! Thanks! =)

  36. By Loren on Sep 1, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Paisley – did the directions here help, or is changing a page to landscape still not working for you?

  37. By paisley on Sep 1, 2008 | Reply

    This does not work at all, why do they make it so impossible to turn just one page around.

  38. By matt on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply

    thanks alot

  39. By Ryan Jeri on Aug 27, 2008 | Reply

    Thank you for the direction. Microsoft makes change so difficult.

  40. By Andy Redpath on Aug 4, 2008 | Reply

    Thank you! – one of many tasks previously mastered, then obscured by ribbons but now re-learned…

  41. By sue gandy on Aug 3, 2008 | Reply

    Thank you , successfully completed a task causing great trauma.

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