You can make single pages in your Microsoft Word 2016 or 2013 document landscape. Just follow these steps.
- 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)
- Select “Layout” or “Page Layout” > “Breaks” > “Next Page” to create a section.
- Select the “Page Layout” tab and select “Orientation” > “Landscape“.
What 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. - 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.
- Select “Page Layout” > “Breaks” > “Next Page” just like in step 2 to create another section.
- Select “Page Layout” tab and select “Orientation” > “Portrait“. This will make the rest of the document display in portrait.
What 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.
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):
- Right click on the header on the landscape page and select “Edit Header”
- Click the “Link to Previous” button so that it is no longer highlighted.
- Delete the heading for that page. It should remain on page 1.
Peter says
Legend! Thank you
JAQUIN says
Thank you so much. Been struggling with this for years until today. Thumbs up
Simon says
Thank you!
Leo says
Awesome and made simple!!
Murewa Ayodele says
This was really helpful.. Thanks and God bless you
JC says
Thanks so much for the help :)
Linda says
Thank you so much.
SYAF says
It works!!! Thank you :D
Ani says
The best, clearest, and easiest help I’ve seen – and I’ve done a lot of searching.. Thank you.
JMFLEX says
YOU ARE SUCH A LEGEND THANKS A MILLION!!!!
Vusi says
Thanks for concise and complete explanation.
Cooper says
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you…this was very helpful!!
RCplasmatron says
Nice, I’ve managed to make one of the pages landscape without affecting the whole document, thx really appreciate it.
Yochai Glick says
Thanks for clear instructions.
When the landscape page is in the middle of a portrait document is stuffs up the page numbers.
It’s easy to fix, but I think it would be useful if you included instructions. In a nutshell, copy paste page# field from last portrait page to landscape, then change it to continue from previous. Same for first portrait page after the landscape page
Kiel says
Thank you for this concise explanation.