Microsoft Word documents can have both portrait and landscape page orientation. This feature is very useful if you plan to print a Word document: the orientation of the document will be the one printed. You can set a Microsoft Word document to have a portrait or landscape orientation, according to your personal preferences. What's more, when setting the orientation of a Microsoft Word document, you can set the orientation for the whole document or just for a specific page of the document or even for a specific selection of text in the document.
What's more, changing the orientation of a certain page of an entire Microsoft Word document is not only something that is possible but is also quite simple. Changing the orientation of a page of an entire Microsoft Word document is done in basically the same way, regardless of the iteration of Microsoft Word you are using (God knows there are a lot of different). If you want to change the orientation of a page or a specific selection of text in a Microsoft Word document from portrait to landscape or vice versa, should:
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Highlight and select the text whose orientation you want to change. This is totally up to you: if you want to change the orientation of a specific page, just select all the text on that page, if you want to change the orientation of just a few specific lines, then select only the lines you want to change the orientation of.
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Go to the Page Layout tab of the Microsoft Word toolbar.
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Click the page setup dialog launcher and the page setup dialog will appear
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In Orientation, click Landscape or Portrait depending on which orientation you want the selected page or text to change to.
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Open the drop-down menu next to Apply to: and click Selected Text. This will tell Microsoft Word to only change the orientation of the text that has been selected.
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Click ok. As soon as i do, the orientation of the page or text you have selected will change to the orientation you have chosen.
If the orientation of a whole page is changed in a Word document, the entire page will be changed to Portrait or Landscape with all other pages intact. On the other hand, if the orientation of a text selection is changed in a Word document, Microsoft Word will automatically insert section breaks before and after text selection, which will make the selected text get its own page. Text before text selection remains on its own page, the text selection receives a new page of its own and the text after the text selection is moved to the page immediately after the new page, and the new orientation of the selected page is applied. to the page where the selected text selection is located.
