How to make landscape and book pages in Word (including so that in one document one page was landscape, and the others book)

Good time!

When working with documents, it is often necessary to arrange some pages in portrait orientation (i.e., vertically), and some in landscape orientation (i.e., horizontally). And, as I notice, a number of users have slight difficulties with this (especially when the document is large and it is necessary to combine both of these formats in it.

In this article I will show how this can be done in several ways (I take only new versions of Word into account).

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Change the page orientation from landscape to portrait (and vice versa)

Relevant for Word 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 versions

1. first open or create a new document;
2. then open the "Layout" section (or "Page Layout", depending on the version of Word) and in the "Orientation" item select book / landscape orientation (see screen below);

   Layout - Orientation / Clickable

3. as you can see from the example, our page has changed its orientation to book orientation;

   Book spread

4. another alternative way to change the orientation is to use the "Margins" tool ("Layout" -> "Margins" -> "Custom Margins");

   Layout - Fields - Custom Fields

5. in the properties of this window it will be possible not only to set indents, but also to specify the orientation of the document.

   fields

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How to make pages with different orientations in one document

Method 1

1. We will assume that you already have the document and it is open. First, you need to select the text (part of the document) that you want to place in an excellent orientation (for example, you have the entire document in portrait, and you want in landscape), and open the "Custom Fields" tool (see the arrows on the screenshot below);

   Select text and open custom fields / Clickable

2. then select the orientation of the sheet and indicate that you need to apply it only for the selected area;

   landscape orientation to selected text

3. after that, the selected area will be on a "different" sheet (for example, in landscape orientation, as in the example below).

   what happened in the end

Method 2

1. first, open the desired Word document, in the "Home" section, turn on the display of non-printable characters (see the screenshot below);

   Turn on the display of non-printable characters

2. further important point: if you want, for example, to make the second page landscape - then put the cursor on the last line on the first page, and using the "Breaks" tool, put a break from the next page;

   Section Break - Next Page

3. note that at the end of the first page will be displayed "Section break from next page" (note: when you turn off the display of non-printable characters, it will not be visible). Basically, now move the cursor to the second page and use the Orientation tool to position the page.

   Page orientation, selection

4. as you can see from the example below - the first page remained vertical, the rest became horizontal (i.e. landscape);

   What happened

5. if you need to make the sheets vertical again (i.e., book) from the third page, then put a section break at the end of the second sheet, and then move the cursor to the third sheet and set the desired orientation (example below);

   We put a section of the page, move the cursor and choose a different orientation

6. as a result, we got all the pages of the book, and one (second) with landscape orientation. So The Breaks tool lets you style each page in its own way, which is great!

   

   What happened in the end (through the breaks)

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Add-ons are welcome ...

Happy work!