Word: Rotate page – simple instructions

If you want to rotate a page in Word, this is very easy to do. You can even change the orientation of several pages in a document

How to rotate pages in Word

To rotate a page in Word, you must change the orientation of the page. You can decide whether you also want to rotate the text or not.

• First open your document in Word.

• Click on the Layout tab in the top menu bar to open it. In older versions of Office, this may also be called “Page layout”.

• Now click on the Alignment field.

• You now have the choice between the Portrait and Landscape format options. Select the desired orientation.

• If you also want to rotate the text in your document, click on the Text direction button.

• Select the orientation that meets your requirements, for example “Vertical”.

Rotate an individual page in Word

The procedure described in the previous chapter has a small catch, as all pages of your document are always rotated at the same time. If you only want to rotate individual pages, the procedure is slightly different.

• Open the page you want to rotate in your Word document.

• Switch to the Layout tab.

• Click on the Wrap button and then on Next page.

• Rotate the page by first selecting Orientation and then either Landscape or Portrait.

• To now also rotate the text, go to the Layout tab, select Text direction and choose one of the available options.

• Use the text direction options to apply this change to the entire document or only to the selected text or selected sections.

• You can insert as many section breaks as you like in your document and thus also rotate additional pages.