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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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?
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
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
Thanks Marwa. Lifesaver.
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?
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
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!
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??
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?
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??
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?
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
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
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!
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
Thanks NewPaperclip; saved me a lot of ribbon diggin’!
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!!
Thank you very much Marwa !!
I was really looking for this help
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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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?
Thanks Matt, the answer to the second question most people asked.
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.
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..
Please change the Zoom to 100%
Thanks about the section break comment, helped a lot!
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?
Thanks Matt. Saved me a lot of time the power of Web 2.0 community at its finest.
Matt: Thank you, thank you for the page numbering tip!
It’s been driving me insane!
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???
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!
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!
Thanks Matt…your solution to fix the page numbering for portrait & landscape pages in the same document was perfect.
thanks marwa i was trying page break all along n was obviously not working,,,thanks again
REALLY AWESOME..
You Legend!
I have a document of more than 150 pages and have broken it into different sections with different orientations.
My problem is I want the header to come in portrait mode always. For instance in the portrait mode it is okay but in the landscape mode the header is coming as a shortened version on the top of the lanscape sections. I want it on the right so that it will always print out at the top.
Thanks for your valuable help.
Thankxx alot man, ur print screen helped me alot.
HELP ME!! Right, I wrote an essay in portrait. Now I have to include grids than are in another document and are landscape. However, when I change them from landscape to portrait part of the grids are deleted at the far right hand side. Is there an option when you can rotate the grids to landscape aswell?
hey thanks that helped me as well.
i whant the page to still be portrait but a whant the writting to be landscape
Hey, your site helped me today. This Office 2007 layout really makes me mad!
Thanks a lot.
Thanks – that was great help in completing a report.
Help. I have an invitation to print. The paper has already been cut and it is 14cm (width) /6cm (height. I have managed to set the page up on word 07 to fit that measurement (it is in landscape) yet as my printer will not allow something with only a 6cm height to go through i need to feed it through the other way (long ways). However when i change the page layout to portrait the writing remains in landscape. How do i get the writing to rotate with the page (page portrait, text landscape) Any help appreciated.
NOTE TO ABOVE:
Sorry that makes no sense. I just want the text to rotate 90 degrees to the right when i set it on portrait, so it looks right.
What if you want a whole section to be landscape?
Hey, Im trying to insert a landscape portriat every now and then into my word document but the bloody page numbers keep going back to 1 when im up to 30 pages. When I try to change the page numbers all the page numbers get affected. How can I get my landscape page to follow the rest of the page numbers?
thanks a bunch for the answer to the second question~ helped me complete my assignment ^.^ cheers!
Hey everyone, after ages trying to work out how to get page numbers on landscape pages to by aligned like a portrait page, i think I’ve cracked it! Might be a round about way of doing it, but bare with me!
Firstly choose the style of page number you want in the usual way. Then go to your already re-orientated landscape pages and click in that pages footer (or header if thats where your text is going), then under the design tab, un-click “link to previous” in the navigation box. Also do this for the page after your landscape one so that all the others don’t change as well. Next (while you are clicked in your landscape footer) click on page number in the design tab and select page margins, from this i suggest using “vertical, left” for a corner page number, or “large, left” for a central page number (dont worry you can change the style back later). After you have done this click on the new (wrongly orientated) page number and select the new ‘format’ tab at the top of the screen. Now click on “text direction” on the left of the screen until your page number is correctly orientated. Now highlight the contents of the box and go back to the design tab, choose page number, current position then choose your desired style. You will then have to change the font and the size in the usual way and maybe change the size of the text box and the position to match the other pages.
And there we go! Simples!
Thank you so much Benjy!
I have no idea why a feature like this isn’t natively built into Word 2007; it’s a common occurrence!
While you’re solution was quite ’round about’, it worked, and thats all that mattered!
thanks Benjy
Matt, brilliant!
Thanks guys
thank you helped a lot
If you have some pages in landscape and others in portrait, to stop the page numbers re-setting (mine were in the footer), highlight the number (i.e. if it says Page 4, highlight the 4), open ‘format page numbers’ and select ‘continue from previous section’.
Benjy,
If I knew you, I’d buy you a drink. Your advice is clear and helpful. Best of all, it works!!! Thank you so much for taking time to share your wisdom!!!
Grateful Grad Student
Thanks for help on landscape/portrait combination. So handy for this assignement
Thanks this is so informative!
Thank you Benjy for your comment. It really helped me.
To those like me who struggled to obtain continuous page numbering after inserting a few landscape pages into a portrait document. Since we have started a new section in order to introduce the landscape pages, the page numbering goes back to 1 or to the page number you have entered in the “start at ….” box in the “page number format” tab. To obtain continuous page numbering, go to the page where page numbering reverts and double click on the header. Then go to the “page number format” tab and click on the “continue from previous section” option.
of great help!!!! thanks!
Great help! Thanks people!
I LOVE THIS PAGE. Very helpful.
THANK YOU EVERYONE.
Benjy, you are my hero!
The New Paperclip rocks!!!
Continuous section break is what i was looking for.
Thank’s a lot..
this really help me.
@Marwa, thanks for the orientation related solution. We were stuck at a point!!!
To change the page orientation in Word 2007 .
Tip from TNP was very useful,thanks to TNP for the same.
Regards,
Ajay
Thank you Marwa ..
you saved my time ..
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thnxxx a lot i relly needed it 4 ma project
lookin 4 tis website since ages!!!
how to keep header and footer in portrait orientation while i want my content in landscape orientation? can it be done?
Thank you so much this helped me A LOT!!!!!!
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@Marwa Thank you for your valuable comments on landscape orientation
it works
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For some reason, my printer will only take a letter head landscape but prints it portrait. How can I change it to print the other way?
Thanks to TNP (-;
Thanks Matt. It’s the solution that keeps giving.
thanks I could understand the section break in page layout and do as i wanted to change orientation of single page among-st others as potrait
I have rotated some pages to landscape in my document however when it prints off it makes the header too big. Everything is proportionately correct however it is like it is leaving a gap for the section break. This is now pushing my footer off the printed version. Everything looks correct in normal view and print preview of the document. Using Word 2007.
Anyone any idea’s on how to fix this?
Tnx everyone. I got a new problem , I have both portrait and landscape pages in my document , when I want to print that , it doesn’t work correctly , landscapes change shape into portrait. can anyone help??!
what the shortcut key of landscape and portrait
hi, thankyou very much to this website! i have recently got a laptop and didnt know how to change it to landscape on microsoft word 2010. within 2 clicks i found out how.
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THANKS ALOT!!
Heyyyy!!!
I need to have some pages oriented as landscape in between others as portrait, and the system changes me more than I want … I tried the mentioned option of Insert Page Break but is not working!!! Can anyone tell me, is for windows 7! … Thanks!!!!
Thankssssss!!! Now it workedddddddd!!!
I want to collate the pages I’ve created in landscape. Easy to do when .doc in portrait but… What happens – I go to print and the collate box is already checked! I print and don’t end up with collated pages. I’ve tried unclicking the collate box – illogical but desperate measures are called for. Hope someone can assist on this forum. I’m using mac 0SX MS Office 2008 and trying to print off landscape documents with my HP Laser 1100 printer.Thanks
Thanks so much. This has been a big help
Thanks a lots guys, this stuff helped me a lot
Thank you very much!
Thanks …
hey, how do you create an a5 landscape paper on word? cos it won’t let me and i need it for college! thank you!
sorry to be a pain i meant a2!!!
Problem: I have a 145 page document in Landscape. Includes tables & such with a lot of formatting. I need to convert it to Portrait.
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!
Matt i love you for fixing the page no problem.
Thanks
jiten
Really Thanks!!!