Sometimes, just sometimes we need to have a single page in a 40 page portrait report in landscape. Luckily we can have portrait and landscape pages in the same document using Google Docs and Microsoft Word.
What is portrait and landscape
Simply its vertical (portrait) or horizontal (landscape). A piece of paper standing on its short side (portrait) or its long side (landscape).
What advantages does changing page orientation have?
By changing the pages orientation we can find extra space for our beautiful graph on projected sales, a wide table or just a photo showing a new product. You can see below which looks better
How to have portrait and landscape pages in the same document
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Equipment
- Google Workspace Account (Paid) OR
- Google Account (Free) OR
- Microsoft Office
Ingredients
- Document
- Document
Instructions
Google Docs
- Highlight the contents on the page you want to change orientation for.
- Right click and press Change page to landscape
- You may need to do a little tweaking to move text and images to the correct place
Microsoft Word
- Place our cursor at the start of the page we wish to change to landscape.
- Select Layout > Breaks > Next Page.
- Select Layout > Orientation > Landscape.
- Now repeat the 1st 3 steps but this time place your cursor at the start the page after our landscape page.
- You may need to do a little tweaking to move text and images to the correct place.
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