Hello. I wanted to insert a landscape page in a Portrait-oriented document, while keeping the other pages portrait. I googled it and managed to do so.



But now, each time i want to change the orientation in an already existing document or a new one, it only changes one page, leaving it blank, and the rest stay the same orientation. Can anyone help with this issue?
Here's a link with the printscreen: https://ibb.co/gNCT5v
Thank you.

Word applies page setups on a section by section basis. So in order to vary the page setup setting such as Portrait/Landscape you need a section break at the point where the page setup changes. Once that section break is there, you can change either section independently of each other.

If you no longer needed the variation in the page setup, you could delete the section break and the first section will inherit the page setup of the second section.

It can be hard to see section breaks in page layout view. If you change to Draft view, it is much easier to see and delete section breaks.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thank you for the reply. I tried to delete the page breaks in draft mode, but i cant see them. Thing is ... i encounter this issue with every document, even old documents, not just the one i inserted page breaks in.

Section breaks are different to page breaks. And Section Breaks come in different flavours which may not always force a new page. If your section is only one page long then add some content to make it bigger.

If you wanted to ensure the entire document contained NO SECTION BREAKS and therefore had the same page layout throughout, you could do a search and replace to find "^b" and replace them with either nothing or a return "^p"

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

To see the section breaks you have to display nonprinting marks, which you can do by clicking the ¶ icon on the Home tab.

Also, when trying to change section properties for an existing section, make sure that you do not have text selected, because Word will then insert more section breaks.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

I believe Andrew and Stefan have answered your question. If you want to spend the time reading to get a fuller understanding of what is going on, here are two web pages that can help:

• Working with sections
• Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word (Ribbon Versions)

Both of these talk about orientation in the page formatting portion of the page.