Using Page Setup Highlight any text on the page you wish to rotate. It doesn't matter what you highlight, but if you don't highlight anything, the appropriate selection does not appear in the Page Setup dialog.
Open this dialog by clicking the small arrow at the bottom right of the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab. On the Margins tab, select either 'Portrait' or 'Landscape' from the Orientation section to rotate the page.
Click the 'Apply to' drop-down menu, choose 'Selected Text' and then click 'OK' to apply the rotation only to the page where the selected text appears.
In this chapter from My Office 2016 for Mac, you learn about creating tables to hold structured data, adding headers and footers to your documents, and working with page layout options such as margins, page orientation, and paper size. Aug 20, 2018 - Page orientation in Word: Change one section of a Microsoft Word document to landscape or portrait without changing the layout of the overall.
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By An aspect of page size in Word 2016 documents is whether the page is oriented vertically or horizontally. Page orientation could be set by adjusting the page size, but it’s much easier to change the page orientation. Follow these steps:. Click the Layout tab. Click the Orientation button. The Orientation button is illustrated here. It has two items on its menu: Portrait and Landscape.
Choose Portrait to set the page vertically or Landscape to set the page horizontally. Word shifts the orientation for every page in your document.
This doesn’t mean that the text is sideways, but rather that the text prints wide on a page. Make the decision to have your document in landscape orientation before you do any extensive formatting. This orientation affects paragraph formatting, which may require you to adjust the document’s margins. Page-orientation changes affect the entire document unless you split your document into sections.
In this case, the change applies to only the current section. Scientists who study such things have determined that human reading speed slows drastically when people must scan a long line of text, which happens when you use landscape orientation. Reserve landscape orientation for printing lists, graphics, and tables for which portrait page orientation is too narrow.
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Landscape printing is ideal for using multiple columns of text. If you just want sideways text without turning the page, use a text box.
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