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Page Orientation Across Sections

  
     
Portrait and Landscape

Page orientation is described by two printing terms: portrait and landscape. A portrait page looks like this:


A landscape page looks like this:



Although the majority of our documents are written in portrait orientation, occasionally you may want part of a document to be in landscape orientation. This usually happens when you need to present a wide table or add a wide drawing, flowchart, etc., to a document.

 
Change Page Orientation from Portrait to Landscape

To change the page orientation of a section:

  1. Follow the steps above to create a new section.
  2. Click anywhere in the new section.
  3. Click File on the menu bar. (The File menu will open).
  4. In the File menu, click Page Setup…. (The Page Setup dialogue box will open).
  5. In the Page Setup dialogue box, click on the Margins tab. (The Margins tab will open).
  6. In the Orientation area of the Margins tab, click the box above the word Landscape.
  7. In the Preview area of the Margins tab, check that the Applied to… field is showing Selected sections.
  8. Click OK to change the page orientation. (The section you have created should now be displayed in landscape orientation).
  
Changing page Orientation in the Middle of a Document

Whenever you want to change the page orientation in the middle of a document, you can save time by isolating the section from those above and below it before you change the page orientation. To change the page orientation in the middle of a document:

  1. Create a blank page where you want the section to be placed (Ctrl+Enter).
  2. Insert a section break before and after the blank page to isolate it from the rest of the document.
  3. Click on the page in the new section and change the page orientation to landscape as described above.

This will change the orientation of the section you have just created to landscape, but won't affect the page orientation of the sections before and after it. They will remain in portrait orientation.

 
 
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