Word 2007 - Landscape page within a portrait document

[The Cowboy Bebop and Spike]

It is really important i have to but one landscape page within a portrait
document. In word 2007. I have a footer as well if thats important to know

Thanks
Matthew

[Jay Freedman]

Making the page landscape is fairly simple:

- Select all the text that should be on the landscape page.
- On the Page Layout tab, click the tiny button in the bottom right
corner of the Page Setup group.
- In the dialog, select the Landscape picture. IMPORTANT -- DON'T SKIP
THIS: At the bottom of the dialog, change the "Apply to" dropdown from
Whole Document to Selected Text.
- Click OK.

Unfortunately, the footer will now sit along the long edge of the
paper instead of matching the location of the footers in the rest of
the document. Fixing this takes some doing.

- Double-click in the footer of the landscape section. The Header &
Footer Tools > Design tab appears in the ribbon. In the Navigation
group, click the Link To Previous button to turn it off.

- Click the Next Section button to go to the footer of the section
following the landscape section, and again turn off the Link To
Previous button. You've now isolated the footer of the landscape
section so that changes there won't affect any other footers in the
document.

- Select all the text of the footer in the landscape section and cut
it to the clipboard.

- Go to the Insert ribbon, click the Table button, and select a
one-cell table.

- Because the cursor is now in a table, the Table Tools tab appears in
the ribbon with two sub-tabs. You start on the Design sub-tab. Click
the Borders button and choose No Borders.

- Click the Layout sub-tab, and click the Properties button at the far
left.

- In the Properties dialog, click the Around picture button. That
causes a Positioning button to appear in the dialog; click that.

- Set the horizontal position to "Right relative to Margin".

- Set the vertical position to "Top relative to Margin". Click OK.

- Click the Row tab of the Properties dialog. Check the "Specify
height" box and set the row height to the width of the footers in the
portrait sections -- probably 6" or 6.5".

- Click the Column tab and set the preferred width to the height of
the footers in the portrait sections -- probably 0.5". Click OK.

- On the Table Tools > Layout ribbon, in the Alignment group, click
the Text Direction button twice so the arrows point up.

- Paste the clipboard into the table. The result should more or less
match the position the footer would have if the page were still in
portrait orientation.

Before you ask, yes this is (nearly) the only way, especially if your
footer includes StyleRef fields that need to update. Yes, Microsoft
knows what a PITA it is. The article at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm
describes similar workarounds going back to Word 97.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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