Help, tips, tricks and tutorials for Microsoft Office 2007 - The New Paperclip
22nd April
2007
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Normally, when you open Word 2007 your document will be in “Portrait Orientation.” Portrait means that the page is taller than it is wider.  Portrait works for most documents, but sometimes you might want to put that page on its side… or landscape, which is when the page is wider than it is taller.

How to change to Portrait or Landscape page orientation in Word 2007

To change the page orientation in Word 2007, click on the “Page Layout” tab on the Ribbon, and then click on the “Orientation” button.  This will give you your two options, portrait, or landscape.

’till next time
TNP ;)

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32 Comments

  1. Chris Lilley
    21/05/2007

    Hi. Can I change the orientation of a single page from a 7 page document? I need 6 of them in portrait and 1 in landscape. Can this be done or do I need to create a seperate document for the landscape page?

  2. Marwa
    07/06/2007

    Hi.. Regarding the previous comments… Yes you can change the orientation of a single page from a 7 page document!
    You need to insert Section Break between the portrait and the landscape pages.
    Good Luck :)

  3. Matt
    21/03/2008

    Thankyou so much. I googled “how to change to landscape in microsoft office 2007″, and i was lucky enough to find this site.

    Thankyou again, helped me complete a school assignment,
    Matt

  4. charlie
    25/05/2008

    Thanks Marwa. Lifesaver.

  5. UK Dave
    10/06/2008

    That’s fine but my Word 2002 does not recognise the page set-up as landscape when I want to centre text - the text goes to the centre but as if the page was still portrait! I have no tabs, 2cm right & left margins and now I have given up - any ideas?

  6. 10/07/2008

    Thank you. My document is 52 pages long. I was able to change 16 pages to landscape, which is what I wanted to do, however, the page numbers started over on the landscape page. My question: how do I have continuous page numbers. Thank you

  7. Rick
    24/07/2008

    I have the same problem Carole has. In Word 2003, I could change a few pages to landscape with a group of portrait pages without having page number problems. But not in 2007. For the life of me, I cannot get the page numbers to continue…they reset to page 1 on the landscape pages. It’s driving me nuts!

  8. Rebecca
    28/07/2008

    Hi, I’ve been writing up my thesis and have got several pages for my tables which are landscape. I’ve got page numbers running throughout my project, however the ones on the landscape pages are in the wrong position - they should be in the bottom right hand corner, but obviously as the page is turned around they are in the top right and are the wrong way round - obviously not going to be in the right place when my work is bound into a book!

    Does anyone know how to change the location and orientation of the page numbers on these pages only??

  9. Travis
    19/08/2008

    Rebecca, Did you figure out how to do this? I’m in the exact same situation with my dissertation. The way I did this before was to delete the landscape page number then create a text box and putting it in the position you want; you have to rotate it, of course. I found Word2000 help that sugegsted this method also, but it is really screwy. Did you find another method?

  10. Brooke
    23/10/2008

    I have to insert a landscape page into my 30 page document at around page 5, to include a landscape plan. I have worked this out, BUT - My page numbering becomes messed up and it begans page numbering from 1 after my landscape page…Can ayone help??

  11. 03/11/2008

    Hi. Can I change the orientation of a single page from a page document? I need 18 of them in portrait and 50 in landscape. Can this be done or do I need to create a seperate document for the landscape page?

  12. 06/11/2008

    Hi Stanley,

    It is pretty easy to change the orientation of single (or multiple) pages in a longer document.

    When you set the page orientation, it does so for a “section” of the document. When you just type out a normal document, there is only one “section”, hence when you change the page orientation it does it for all of them. So the solution is to add section breaks to your document.

    Click on the page that you want to change the orentation of, and then go to the Page Layout Tab, Page Setup Group, and look in the Breaks menu. Down the bottom you will see four different section breaks you can choose. If you have an existing document, it is best to use the “Continuous” section break.

    Now try to change the orentation again… you will notice it will change it for the current section (section 2).

    But hang on a second, now all the pages after that page are landscape? What the?

    We just repeat the process to create a third section using the Continuous Section Break, then change the orentation back to where we wanted it to be.

    There you go! No need to create multiple documents, and try to collate them back together when you print it out (boy that would suck!)

    ’till next time!
    TNP ;)

  13. AbuFaza
    18/11/2008

    I am using Word 2003. I set up the page to portrait and print it to hp laser jet 5100 in portrait orientation. the result always in Landscape. I try to other printer and the result is in same way. I need your help. Thanks

  14. Matt
    28/11/2008

    To fix the page numbering after changing the orientation of one of the pages in your document, do the following:

    On the newly oriented page:

    1) Open the ‘Insert’ Tab
    2) Click on ‘Page Number’
    3) Click on ‘Format Page Numbers’
    4) Click on ‘Continue from Previous Section’

    Repeat the above process for the page after the newly oriented page.

    You’re done! :)

  15. Lucy
    08/12/2008

    Hey Marwa! I need to know how to change he pages from portrait to landscape alternatingly.

    Like this: P L P L P L etc. Thanks!

    -Lucy

  16. Omar
    18/12/2008

    Thanks NewPaperclip; saved me a lot of ribbon diggin’!

  17. Caroline
    28/12/2008

    I have the same issue, I wish to put the last page of my report into Landscape and the rest of the report is Portrait. However, I am using Microsoft Works and don’t seem to have the same tabs available as in Word. Help!!

  18. Hendry
    14/01/2009

    Thank you very much Marwa !!
    I was really looking for this help

  19. Alexa
    03/02/2009

    Thanks Matt, your instructions were clear and very helpful! I had been looking for the way to do this for 20 minutes and all it took was 2 seconds after reading your comment.

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  21. carl
    13/03/2009

    Somehow in print view all our word documents are rotated 90%. This is a text orientation problem, not related to landscape/portrait.
    it may have happened when my son opened a file from school which was set-up that way… any ideas?

  22. Louis
    20/03/2009

    Thanks Matt, the answer to the second question most people asked.

  23. Dorene
    30/03/2009

    I am having a problem with page layout. The page layout is in landscape mode and it won’t respond when I click on the portrait icon. It was in landscape mode when I opened a new blank document and I don’t know why.

  24. berdux
    06/04/2009

    hi,
    I have a document of 4 landscape pages. When I print a single page it gets printed in landscape all right, but when I want to print all 4 pages in one A4 page it changes the orientation and prints them like they were 4 portrait pages.. I have been searching a way to fix this but haven’t found anything..

  25. Karthik
    16/04/2009

    Please change the Zoom to 100%

  26. 22/04/2009

    Thanks about the section break comment, helped a lot! :)

  27. AlOmar
    23/04/2009

    Hi. Can I change the orientation of a single page from a 3 page document? I need 2 of them in portrait and 1 in landscape. Can this be done or do I need to create a seperate document for the landscape page?

  28. Martin
    23/04/2009

    Thanks Matt. Saved me a lot of time the power of Web 2.0 community at its finest.

  29. prakash
    29/04/2009

    Matt: Thank you, thank you for the page numbering tip!
    It’s been driving me insane!

  30. capmotion
    04/05/2009

    have Word. set portrait on orientation page and on printer page and it still, and always, comes out landscape - can’t get portrait orientation. what’s that all about???

  31. 07/05/2009

    OH thanks for this landscape thingy. I been searching all over 2007 tabs and i barely cant find page setup. Once again thank you. YOu make me a hero today!

  32. Octavian
    09/05/2009

    Thanks a lot, mate!!! First find on Google, then it worked.
    One suggestion: include the tips for single page layout set in the main post body, so people don’t have to read the comments to get to it.

    Just my thought. :-)
    Cheers!

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