having landscape & portrait views in same documents - how to setup? 1

[Nate1749]

Recently I was working a word doc that was 140+ pages long. About a dozen of the pages needs to be in landscape view, the rest in portrait. The dozen that needed to be in landscape where in random places throughout the document. I could not figure out how to make just one page landscape, while keeping the rest portrait.

I had to click on the page I wanted landscape, then go to page setup and select 'This Point Forward' (the only other choice was whole document). Then I would go to the page right after that needed to be in portrait, and would do the same thing and select this point forward, portrait. Then I'd scroll down 10 or so pages until the next page that needed to be landscape and change it from that point on to landscape, so on and so forth.

As you can image this was a quite tedious and annoying process, it would have been much easier if there would have just been a drop down option that said "This Page Only," but I couldn't find anything like that. My question is, is there anything like that? Or an easier way to do this?

What made it even worse was the document needed to be printed several times and when revisions were made I would be forced to go through and do it all over again if a page needed to be added in say the middle of the document and just that page needed to be in landscape.

-Nate

 

[carrr]

From Word Help:

Can I have portrait and landscape pages in the same document?

Yes. If the document is in portrait orientation, select the pages that you want to change to landscape orientation. On the File menu, click Page Setup, click the Paper Size tab, and then click Landscape. In the Apply to box, click Selected Text.

 

[Dreamboat]

BAD METHOD, carrr. Sorry.

At the bottom of the portrait page, before your landscape page, hit Insert-Break, Next Page section break. Hit return a couple times and insert another break--same kind.

Now, click somewhere between the two, and then File-Page setup, choose Landscape and make sure it's "this section only"

If you don't have any portrait pages after the landscape pages, you don't need the second section break.

Anne Troy
Way cool stuff:

http://www.cafeshops.com/OfficeExperts

 

[Nate1749]

carr: sometimes my pags have tables, images, etc. selecting really becomes a pain, especially when the pages I need in landscape are page #'s 7, 21. 54. 55, 56, 88, 102, etc....

How do you select one page, then skip down and select another? Holding ctrl doesn't work, and shift will select everything in between.


dreamboat: I tried your method, but the only options I have available are Whole Document & This Point Forward. I tried it on a blank page and then i entered some text, and then I selected the text; all 3 times only those two choices are available to me. I'm using MS Word 2000.

Looks like there is quick fix to this...

-Nate

 

[Dreamboat]

Put all your section breaks in first. One at the bottom of each of the following pages:

7, 21. 54. 55, 56, 88, 102

6,7
20, 21
53, 56
87, 88,
101, 102

See? At the bottom of the page BEFORE the landscaped pages, and at the bottom of the landscaped page. THEN, click on (don't select!) just the FIRST (or any) page of the pages that should be landscaped and hit Format...and choose "this section only".

You are getting "this point forward" because there are no more sections right now. But doing what I just said would be the very easiest for you.

Note that I put a break at the bottom of page 53 and 56. You don't need section breaks at the bottom of EVERY landscaped page, only at the one before a section of landscaped pages and at the bottom of the last page in a section of landscaped pages. If your last page(s) are landscaped, then you will again have only "this point forward" because there aren't any more section breaks. You don't need a section break at the end of a landscaped page when it's the last page of the document. Section breaks are required for you to change most page layout options in only certain areas of a document.

Anne Troy
Way cool stuff:

http://www.cafeshops.com/OfficeExperts