To make one page landscape in Word while the rest stays portrait, select the content for that page and use Page Setup with Apply to: Selected text. Word adds the section breaks for you.
Used forWide tables, charts, drawings
ToolLayout › Margins › Custom Margins
Works inWord 2010 and later, Microsoft 365
The quick way
- Select everything that should go on the landscape page: the wide table or chart.
- Go to Layout › Margins › Custom Margins.
- Under Orientation, choose Landscape.
- In Apply to, choose Selected text and click OK.
Word puts the selection on its own landscape page and keeps the pages before and after it in portrait.
With section breaks
- Click just before the content and choose Layout › Breaks › Next Page.
- Click just after the content and insert another Next Page break.
- Click inside the middle section and choose Layout › Orientation › Landscape.
Tip: Press Ctrl + Shift + 8 to see the section breaks if pages turn the wrong way.
Page numbers on the landscape page
Page numbers continue normally. They appear along the long edge of the landscape page, which is correct when the page is turned to read it.
FAQ
The whole document turned landscape.
Apply to was set to Whole document. Undo and choose Selected text.
There is an extra blank page after the landscape page.
Delete the empty paragraph before the second section break. See delete a blank page.