2 Ways to Change to Landscape in Word: Page & Entire Document

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This wikiHow teaches you how to change the orientation of a Microsoft Word document from portrait to landscape. If you don't want to rotate the whole document, you can rotate one page by surrounding it with section breaks.

• Rotate the whole document on the Layout tab by selecting Orientation >Landscape.
• You can rotate a single page by inserting a section break at the top of the page.
• Once you add a section break, you can click the cursor on the desired page and go to Layout >Orientation >Landscape.

Changing the Whole Document

• Alternatively, open Microsoft Word first (under All Apps in the Start menu on Windows, or in the Applications folder on macOS), then open the document.

Click the Layout or Page Layout menu. It’s at the top of the screen. The name will vary depending on your version of Word.

Changing One Page

• Alternatively, open Microsoft Word first (under All Apps in the Start menu on Windows, or in the Applications folder on macOS), then open the document.

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Click the cursor at the beginning of the page you want to rotate. Clicking right before the first character on the page should do the trick.

Click Layout or Page Layout . It’s one of the menus at the top of Word. The name you see will vary depending on your version.

Click Landscape . This page (and any that follow it) is now in landscape mode. Since you only want to rotate one page, you’ll just need to add another break at the bottom of the page to convert the remaining pages back to portrait mode.

Click Portrait . The remaining pages after this break will all be in portrait mode, while the page(s) between the breaks will remain in landscape. [1] X Trustworthy Source Microsoft Support Technical support and product information from Microsoft. Go to source

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