Adapted from Benjy 23/04/2010 at http://thenewpaperclip.com/2007/04/22/change-your-page-orientation-portrait-vs-landscape-in-word-2007/

1. Open your page containing Landscape content. Click that page’s footer or header (currently also in Landscape orientation). Under the Formatting Palette’s “Header & Footer” tab, un-check “Link to Previous”. Repeat this for the pages before and after your landscape so that all the other pages don’t change as well.

2. Go back and click the header or footer. If text is already written, highlight it and click “⌘ x” to cut/copy the text. In the top Insert menu, click Page Numbers and select any Alignment you prefer – I’d recommend either Left, Center, or Right, depending on where you plan to place your header / footer text (but don’t think about this choice too much – you can change the Alignment later, if you need to). Click OK. A page number will appear. If you want that page number, leave it alone. But if you want a different number or the original header / footer text, just highlight the unwanted page number, delete it, then press “⌘ v” to paste the text that you cut/copied earlier.

3. It’s time to change your header / footer orientation from Landscape to Portrait. Highlight the entire section of header / footer text (or page number). In the top Format menu, click Text Direction. Choose the text’s Orientation to face be read from the left, the right, or from straight ahead. Click OK.

4. Click to highlight the contents of the newly oriented header / footer text box. Stretch / shrink the sides of the box if the text requires a different-shaped rectangle. Hold-click down on the box and drag it to your desired location on the page. Alternatively, you can move this box by highlighting the box, then going to the top Format menu and choosing Frame. Change the Horizontal and Vertical positioning (relative to page). Click OK.

5. If you’d like to change anything about the text (font, font size, orientation, face direction, italicize, or ANYTHING else), just highlight the text and use the Formatting Palette to change anything you want. It’s so easy!

Question: How do I change Orientation while keeping the tables in tact? Everything runs off the page in Portrait and I am trying to avoid touching every single page! Help?

Previous Attempts:
1) I’ve opened a new document in Portrait, pasted in there = it turned the document into Portrait.
2) I’ve changed the “word options” to keep the destination formatting = turned into no formatting at all
3) For now I’m working off of option 2) since it is cleaner.

Thanks in advance for any tips!