It's easy to change the orientation of an entire Microsoft Word document, but not so simple when you only want to change the orientation of a single page or a few pages.
As it turns out, you can insert a landscape-oriented page — a horizontal page layout — into a document that uses portrait orientation, a vertical page layout, or vice versa. You might have a wide table that you need to use in a report or a picture that looks better in landscape orientation.
In Microsoft Word, you can either insert section breaks manually at the top and the bottom of the page that you want in the other orientation, or you can select text and allow MS Word to insert the new sections for you.
Manually Insert Section Breaks and Set the Orientation
To tell Microsoft Word where to break the page instead of letting the program decide on its own, insert a Next Page section break at the start and end of the text, table, picture, or other object for which you are changing the page orientation.
Repeat the above steps at the end of the area you want to rotate, and then continue with these steps:
Let Microsoft Word Do It For You
You'll save mouse clicks if you let Microsoft Word insert the section breaks for you, but then they'll be placed where it decides they should be.
The difficulty with letting Word place your section breaks comes when you select text. If you don't highlight the entire paragraph, multiple paragraphs, images, tables, or other items, MS Word moves the unselected items onto another page.
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You can see hidden breaks and other formatting elements with the Ctrl+Shift+8 keyboard shortcut, or by selecting the backwards P icon from the Paragraph section in the Home tab.
No matter how great your idea is, the difference between your business proposal and someone else’s could boil down to the look and feel. A title page, header and footer, table of contents, and other elements separate a professional-looking document from a dull sea of text. It’s worth your time to learn how Word’s tools and wizards make such formatting easy—and keep exploring other ways to present your work in the best possible light.
Headers and footers
Any type of professional-looking document should have headers and footers. Headers and footers are where the title of your document, the page number, and any footnotes and citations you’ve referenced in the body of your paper will reside. Based on the type of document you’re creating, you’ll want a header, footer, or both to house relevant information for the reader to reference.
Creating a header and/or footer![]()
To get to the Header and Footer submenu, click Insert. Depending on which you want to insert, click on either the Header or Footer drop-down menu, and select a format for the section.
If you’re creating both a header and a footer, you’ll want to pick the same format to ensure you end up with a consistent-looking document.
Adding content to your header/footer
The header and footer Design ribbon has all the tools you’ll need to add content to those sections.
The first thing everyone should add is a page number. In the ‘Header & Footer’ section of the Insert ribbon, click the Page Number drop-down menu and select the formatting. In addition to the options built into Word, you can find user-submitted choices on Office.com.
To give your page numbers the book effect (page numbers show up on the lefthand or righthand sides of pages alternately), check Different Odd & Even Pages. Now, you can change content in your headers and footers on odd and even pages independently.
From there, use the Insert Page Numbers tool and text justification settings on the “Home Ribbon” to have them appear on the left and right hand side of your document.
You can also insert the date and time the document was created using the Date & Time wizard on the Text submenu, choosing from a wide variety of formats. Use the left, center, and right justification options in the Home ribbon to align your content within the header and footer.
Tables of contents
Microsoft made it pretty easy to create a table of contents that is both functional and attractive. Best of all, some of the options will update your table of contents automatically, so you don’t need to update titles or page numbers every time you make a change.
A note on header stylingInsert Contents Page In Word Doc
To take best advantage of the automatic tables of contents, make sure your in-document headers are formatted appropriately. Select the header text you’d like to format, and click Home.
In the Styles submenu, you’ll see options for Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. Just mouse over any of these header options to preview that style on your text, and click to apply.
Make sure your headings are used hierarchically. Heading 1 should be a major section, while Heading 2 should be a subsection, for example.
How To Insert Contents Page In Word 2018
Next, I'll show you how to insert your table of contents into your document.
Long documents often include a table of contents near the beginning to direct readers to specific information. You might think that including a table of contents is difficult, but the feature is easy to implement. There are two steps. First, you identify the headings you want to include in the table of contents by applying built-in heading styles. Second, you generate the table of contents. I'll show you how to set it up using styles and then how generate the table. I'll also share a few important details about the resulting table.
Use built-in heading styles to id the headings![]()
Below is a contrived example document that I created using =Rand() and adding heading text. Then, I used the Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 styles to format the headings. Word uses these built-in styles to generate a table of contents. (The figure's too small to actually read the text, but the text isn't important to the technique. You can create an example document of your own. You just need a few paragraphs of text and headings.) I applied Heading 1 to the first paragraph on both pages, Heading 2 to the second and third paragraphs on the first page and paragraph 2 on the second. The last paragraph heading style is Heading 3. If you don't want to include a heading in the table of contents, don't use one of the built-in heading styles to format it.
To apply a style, choose a Style from the Styles gallery, located in the Styles group on the Home tab. In Word 2003, choose a style from the Style dropdown on the Formatting toolbar. If you don't like the built-in styles, modify them appropriately for just the current document (not the underlying template).
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Generate the table of contents
After applying the appropriate heading styles to each heading, you're ready to generate the table of contents, as follows:
The longer the document, the longer Word will take to generate the table of contents - but it shouldn't take very long. I used the first choice in the gallery, which increases the indent for each heading layer. In addition, Word inserted the table of contents into a content control and added a heading (Contents). If you choose the second gallery option, Automatic Table 2, Word will add 'Table of Contents' as the heading.
I don't recommend choosing Manual Table unless you have a very specific reason for doing so. This option will insert a table of contents outline and you'll have to type in the actual text - I don't even know why Word offers this option. (If you use it, please tell us why!) To insert a second table of contents, choose Insert Table of Contents from the list below the gallery options.
Things to know
You're not stuck with the results, not exactly. You can change the font size and other attributes as follows:
I mentioned earlier that Word inserts the table of contents via a content control. When you move the mouse over the control, Word will display a shaded background. That shading won't print, it's just a visual reminder that the content is actually in a control and not ordinary content. If you don’t see the shading in your document, do the following:
The table of contents won't update automatically if you add, delete, or change a heading. Remember, it's a content control (field). To update the table of contents, click inside the control and press [F9]. Or, click the control's Update Table option.
Removing a table of contents is difficult at best if you try to do it yourself using the mouse. It can be done, but it's tedious and aggravating. Instead, choose Remove Table of Contents from the Table of Contents option.
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