Microsoft Word’s pages are always oriented in portrait mode by default. While this works well in most cases, you may have a single page that looks better in landscape mode. Here are two methods for making a single-page landscape in Word.
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Change One Page to Landscape With Page Setup
Selecting the content and turning only that page is the quickest and easiest way to switch a page from portrait to landscape in Word. This approach works with text, photos, tables, and other page elements.
Select everything on the page. If you have text, move your cursor across it all. Simply choose a picture, table, chart, or other form of an object if you have one.
Navigate to the Layout tab and click the arrow in the bottom right corner of the ribbon’s Page Setup section. The Page Setup dialog box appears.
Make sure you’re on the Margins tab. Choose “Landscape” below Orientation, then at the bottom, click the Apply To drop-down box and select “Selected Text.” Click “OK.”
When the dialog box closes, your page will switch to landscape mode.
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Create One Page Landscape by Inserting a Break
While the above technique is the easiest, you may have challenges if your website has a variety of objects. You may have an image or table with text wrapped around it, for example.
Although you may pick all of the material on the page, changing the orientation may cause it to appear on more than one page. Fortunately, a section break may be used to produce a one-page landscape in these cases.
Place your cursor before any text or items on the page you want to modify.
To put a section break in your document, go to the Layout tab, click the Breaks drop-down arrow, and select “Next Page.”
Stay on the Layout tab, then select “Landscape” from the Orientation drop-down arrow. This switches the current and all subsequent pages to landscape view.
Go to the next page and set your cursor at the beginning of the content to revert the remaining pages to portrait view.
To place another break in your document, go to the Layout tab, click the Breaks drop-down arrow, and select “Next Page.”
Now, on the Layout tab, select “Portrait” from the Orientation drop-down arrow.
The remaining pages will then return to portrait mode, leaving only the one page you selected in landscape mode.
You can alter the page orientation in Google Docs just as easily as you do in Microsoft Word.
