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#MAC MICROSOFT WORD PRINT LANDSCAPE HOW TO#
#MAC MICROSOFT WORD PRINT LANDSCAPE MAC#

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#MAC MICROSOFT WORD PRINT LANDSCAPE MAC#

Mac compatible versions of Word should have similar options. Please note, these hints work with versions of Microsoft Word currently in use – Word 2007 and Word 2010, for PC. Other useful posts: Section breaks in Word If you have enjoyed this post, please share the link using the buttons below or sharing the Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn alert that you followed to get here!

#MAC MICROSOFT WORD PRINT LANDSCAPE HOW TO#

In this article we have learned what the portrait and landscape orientations are, why they are useful, how to change them in Word and Excel and how to change orientation when you are printing. You will usually then be given a screen something like this which will have a Features tab:įind choice buttons for Portrait / Landscape, select the one you want, and OK, and then your printout will be in that orientation. When the Print dialogue box comes up, click the Properties button: If you want to change the orientation of your printing (in Word or Excel or when you’re printing off a web page or a map or anything!) …įirst, select the Print option. You can change the orientation of the printing while printing – however, the orientation of your original document will NOT change if you use this method, and if you want it to change to Landscape permanently, you will need to go back and follow the instructions I give above. Sometimes you don’t realise that you need to print your document in Landscape rather than Portrait (it’s usually this way around, I find) until you have printed out one copy and find that your lovely picture or table falls off the edge of the page. How do you change between Portrait and Landscape when you’re printing? Then press the Orientation button to make your selection. Find the Orientation menu by going into the Page Layout tab and Page Setup section: How do you change between Portrait and Landscape in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010?Ĭhanging the orientation in Excel works in exactly the same way as doing it in Word. See this post on Section Breaks for instructions on how to do this and change just one page or section. To change one page in Word to be in Landscape, you need to set Section Breaks first, so that Word knows which pages you want to change. Press the Orientation button (or the little arrow at the bottom) to access the menu:Ĭhoose your orientation, and the whole document will change to that orientation, unless you’re only changing one section (see below) How do you change one page in Word to be in Landscape? This can be found in the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup section: You swap between Portrait and Landscape using the Orientation menu in Word. How do you change between Portrait and Landscape in Word 2007 and Word 2010?

Your spreadsheet is too wide to fit comfortably onto a portrait A4 page.

That’s easily done, and you can find out how to have portrait and landscape in one document here. In the last three incidences, you might only want one page of the document to appear in landscape.

You have a picture to insert into the document that’s wider than it’s high.

You have a diagram to insert into the document that’s wider than it’s high.

You have a wide table to insert into the document with lots of columns and it gets too squashed up and hard to read if you try to fit it onto a standard portrait A4 page.

Your layout is such that it comes out wider than it’s high – maybe a poster or a sign to put up in your office or building.

That’s the format of most books, reports, folders, etc. Word and Excel documents default to being in the portrait orientation. Why would I want to use the landscape orientation? Which way round are views painted of the landscape? Exactly. Landscape means that the page has the shorter sides on the left and right. Think of a portrait in a gallery or museum. Portrait means that the page has the shorter sides at top and bottom. Orientation means the relative position of the page when you’re looking at it: Portrait and Landscape are the terms used for the orientation of the page in applications that deal with pages, such as Word and Excel. In this article, we’re talking about the Portrait and Landscape orientations in Word and Excel, what they are, why you might want to use each one, and how to swap between them.