Changing your page orientation is fairly simple to do.
Follow the steps below to learn how:
- Select the Layout tab and click Orientation, which will open a menu with two options: Portrait and Landscape.
- Select Landscape – Your section should now appear in Landscape, whereas the rest of your document should remain in Portrait.
- So now you know how to use sections to change the orientation of your Word document orientation.
There are times though that you would like to do something different and sometimes Word will insert section breaks automatically, without you even realizing it, which is what happens when you insert columns into your document.
- If you select any text in your document, go to Layout | Columns | Two, Word will then automatically create continuous section breaks before and after the area you just selected
- Sometimes when you add certain formatting features in Word, you may not be aware that Word is inserting sections for you. You may not think this is a huge deal, BUT if you use section numbers and begin to notice randomly that your numbering appears a bit off, this could be why! You could have used a feature in Word that has added a section break
- When in doubt, toggle on your hidden formatting marks and you will see that it says those symbols are useful for advanced tasks. So anything that uses section and page breaks certainly counts as an advanced layout
Changing page orientation is useful to know when you are using charts or tables that do not quite fit in portrait mode.
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