Why can't the 2 of you just get along?

December 12, 2006 4:38 AM

Is there a way to have both Landscape and Portrait set pages in a Word document?

I want to insert a Landscape flowchart in to a document that is Portrait formatted.

When I change the page setup the whole document changes to Landscape. Is there any way of changing the orientation of individual pages?

MS Word 2000(Win)

posted by MarvinJ to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Best answer: Yep. Assuming your whole doc is already portrait, put your cursor on the landscape page...


1. File > Page Setup
2. Under the Orientation heading, select Landscape
3. Under the Preview heading, select 'this point forward' (defaults to 'whole document')
4. Then go to the first portrait page after your landscape page and repeat (but select portrait I guess)

Should be fine and you should end up with one page different, at least thats how I do it.
posted by kaydo at 4:57 AM on December 12, 2006 [1 favorite]

Best answer: If you use Section Breaks in your document, the Page Setup dialogs, where Portrait or Landscape are specified, will allow you to apply your desired formatting on a section by section basis.
posted by hwestiii at 5:11 AM on December 12, 2006

hwestiii has the "best practice" answer: use section breaks
posted by briank at 5:31 AM on December 12, 2006

Response by poster: Thanks for that a mixture of both worked for me.

If I hadn't started the doc already, then hwestiii would've been the way to go though.
posted by MarvinJ at 6:23 AM on December 12, 2006

Slight derail, but...

kaydo: Thanks for the different method to do this. I teach this to my students all the time and I always get "section what?", so it's nice to have an alternative method to show them instead!
posted by ranglin at 10:29 PM on December 13, 2006