Switching between portrait and landscape in a Word document can make all the difference for wide tables or images. Here’s a straightforward solution to changing the orientation of an entire document or just a specific page in Microsoft Word. Thus, ensuring your content fits neatly and looks great.
How to Change a Document’s Orientation in Microsoft Word
To change the orientation of a Word document from portrait to landscape, follow these steps:
How to Change the Orientation of One Page in Word
To change the orientation of a specific page(s) in a document, follow these steps:
That’s all. Microsoft Word will change the orientation of only the page(s) with the selected content, while preserving the layout of the rest of the document. Just like Microsoft Word, you canchange the orientation of an Excel documentusing our guide linked here.
The landscape orientation is shorter than the portrait layout. If a page in a portrait layout is packed with content, changing the orientation to landscape might spread its content across two pages, altering the layout of both pages instead of just one.
Before you modifyyour Word document’s formatting, make sure to create a backup of the file. A backup can be handy if something goes wrong with your document formatting, and you unintentionally save changes.
