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Word 2019 & 2016: How to Make a Single Page Landscape

Word 2019 & 2016: How to Make a Single Page Landscape

Posted on by Mitch Bartlett 85 Comments

Clear instructions about how you can make single pages in your Microsoft Word 2019 or 2016 document landscape. Just follow these steps.

  1. Place your cursor at the very beginning of the page that you would like to flip to landscape. (We work with page 2 in our example)
  2. Select “Layout”  or “Page Layout” > “Breaks” > “Next Page” to create a section.
    Word 2010 Next Page option
  3. Select the “Page Layout” tab and select “Orientation” > “Landscape“.
    Word 2010 make one page landscapeWhat this actually does is mark all pages after the break you made in step 2 as landscape. In our example, page 2, 3, 4 and forward are in landscape. Since we only want page 2 to display in landscape, we will need to change any forward pages back to portrait.
  4. Place your cursor on at the beginning of the next page (page 3 in our example) or the next page you wish to remain in portrait.
  5. Select “Page Layout” > “Breaks” > “Next Page” just like in step 2 to create another section.
    Word 2010 Next Page option
  6. Select “Page Layout” tab and select “Orientation” > “Portrait“. This will make the rest of the document display in portrait.
    Word 2010 Portrait selection

That’s all there is to it! You have successfully made a single page landscape in Microsoft Word 2016 & 2013.

Extra Tip: If you have a header on your first page and don’t want it to be on the landscape page, you can do this (after making the page landscape):

  1. Right click on the header on the landscape page and select “Edit Header”
  2. Click the “Link to Previous” button so that it is no longer highlighted.
  3. Delete the heading for that page. It should remain on page 1.

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  6. Aisha Ahuu says

    Thank you so much!!! This was super helpful and i learned something new!! Keep up your good work!! :)

  10. Hector Simons says

    As we say in Jamaica, Nuff respect Iyah, or in English, very detailed step, I appreciate this.

  11. Rakesh Choudhary says

    Yes, its finally done. It was a great help and systematically explained to follow quickly.

  26. Anthony Dito says

    this works when the table of contents formatting trys to get you to format all orientation the same way for the same section BRILLIANT Thasnksssss

  36. TWUBAHE says

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    It works exactly the way I wanted it to work
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    I remain appreciative

  38. 'Hayley says

    When I do this, it works as described however my pages numbers are thrown out of sequence and do not follow on once the break is put in. Can you help with this?

  43. Stephanie says

    This helped with the orientation but threw off the page number justification of the landscape pages. If I try to alter these pages numbers, it messes with the page number justification of the portrait pages.

  44. scorbetta says

    I have a Word template, and any time I add a new Section break as suggested, the landscape page is treated as cover page, with numbering starting from 0 and no template in the footer. How to avoid this?

  46. Rich C says

    This is clean, clear and more importantly accurate. Would share and pass along to a friend or colleague if I am asked.

  50. Janice Carter says

    What about if you’re using a template and in changing from portrait to landscape the template adds a new formatted page just like the first page of the document? How to i avoid that happening?

  60. Yousaf says

    I have a word file which is not changing the page layout of page 9 (my document has 33 pages) to Landscape layout. I tried these steps, but it is not working. Any alternative solutions?

  63. Eurie says

    Thank you – I kept doing I wrong and you after I tried your way – everything went just right!

  66. Robert Davies says

    Didn’t work for me on office 2013

    I did exactly what it said and it always changed every page not just the pages after the cursor

  74. Danika says

    It worked well! You can also adjust the margins in the same step as you adjust the page orientation (together or on its own). Again, you will need to set the following pages back to regular margins just like you do with the page orientation.

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