Please feel free to let me know if your have any questions about this topic. This is how you can convert just a few pages in MS Word document to landscape orientation. This guide solves your day to day MS Word problems. NOTE: This article is part of my MS Word Tips and Guide. Selection of page orientation in MS Word. You can repeat the above steps for changing the layout of any other required page. You will see that the page has turn into landscape but rest of the document is still in portrait layout. In this box, select Orientation as Landscape and select This Section from the “Apply to” list (see the image given below).Again go to Page Layout menu > Pop-out the “Page Setup” group of options by clicking the tiny arrow appearing on the right-bottom corner (marker 2 in the above image).Now again place the cursor on the page you want to convert.MS-Word will insert a section break at the position where your cursor was blinking.Go to Page Layout menu > Go to “Breaks” menu (marker 1 in the above image).Place the cursor at the beginning of the page which you want to convert into landscape layout.Let’s see how we can have a mix of both portrait and landscape pages in an MS Word document: Page orientation menu in MS Word. Wide tables, graphs and images sometimes don’t fit into the portrait layout –but when we try to change the page layout to landscape, MS-Word applies changes to the the entire document. But more often than not we find ourselves in a situation when we wish to have a few pages in landscape format while keeping rest of the pages in portrait format. The default orientation of a document is portrait. That is to say that by default a document cannot have both landscape and portrait pages. By default, just one orientation is applied to all the pages in Word document. Essays, bid submissions and legal documents often have specific font, paragraph and page specifications that Shrink One Page will violate.In MS Word a page can either have have portrait orientation (long) or landscape orientation (wide). In some situations, Shrink One Page changes aren’t allowed. In the real world, there are better ways to squeeze a document down a little. Shrink One Page aka Shrink to Fit is a great tool to impress in Word product demonstrations with a carefully created example document. See the articles Delete an Empty or Blank page in Microsoft Word and Preventing Table overrun to blank page in Word. There are many easier and more elegant ways to get rid of that final blank page without messing up the entire document. Shrink One Page will remove that blank page but only by reducing the size of the entire document’s text! Shrink One Page creates a six & one-third page document by shrinking all the text by 0.05pt, Here’s an example of Shrink One Page’s overzealous document changes a seven page document with a blank page at the end. It will make unnecessarily big changes to the entire document rather than a few tweaks near the end.
Shrink One Page is a fairly blunt instrument that can’t handle long documents or more complex formatting (pictures, tables, charts) very well. Why isn’t Shrink One Page more commonly used? In the above example, 12pt text changes to 11pt.
Shrink One Page reduces the font size and sometimes line spacing a little to make the excess text fit. Here’s a simple two-page document with only two lines at the top of the second page.Ĭlick on Shrink to Fit and, presto!, you have a one page document. Shrink One Page does what the name suggests, it will make a document slightly smaller so an ‘orphan’ part at the top of a page will fit at the bottom of the previous page.
You can add it to a ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar. Now you can insert a different header on this page. Then double click the header area of the second page, uncheck Link to Previous in Design ( Header & Footer Tools) tab. Click Layout Breaks Continuous to insert a section break.
At the time, it was the pride of Office product demos but now languishes in the All Commands list. Put your cursor in the end of the first page. Shrink One Page or Shrink to Fit was added to Word a long time ago, at least a decade. Making a document that’s using part of an extra page (an ‘orphan’), fit into a single page or one less page. The Shrink to Fit or Shrink One Page option hiding in Microsoft Word might solve a common problem.