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Appendix D: Landscape Pages
Inserting a landscape page involves adding two section breaks and then changing the page's orientation from
Portrait to Landscape. Please consult the Graduate School’s video series for more information on formatting
your thesis or dissertation. Once you convert your document to a pdf, rotate all landscape pages to portrait.
Inserting a Landscape Page
1. Navigate to the page before the needed landscape page.
2. Toggle on your Show/Hide button ( ) so you can see the ends of the lines as well as the section breaks.
3. Place your cursor at the end of the line or page.
4. From the Layout tab, click Breaks and select Next Page within Section Breaks.
Scroll up and you'll see where the new section break has been added.
5. Scroll to the next page. Place your cursor at the beginning of the line that needs to start the next page.
6. In the Layout tab, select Breaks and Next Page within Section Breaks.
Scroll up to see the page that needs to be the landscape page.
7. Place your cursor at the beginning of that page
8. In the Layout tab, select Orientation and select Landscape.
9. Now add your table or figure or other content to this page.
Repositioning the Page Number
You will notice that the page number has restarted with the page number one and is located at the bottom of the
landscape page. The page number needs to be moved to left margin.
When you convert your document to a PDF, you will need to rotate all of the landscape pages to portrait. After
you do that the page number will be in the correct location for printing and binding.
1. Double click near the page number to activate the Footer section.
2. With the cursor near the page number, select the Design tab of the Header and Footer tools
a. Click Page Number and click Format page numbers
b. Click Continue from previous section
c. Click OK.
3. Now highlight the page number and cut the page number.
4. Close/deactivate the Header and Footer section.
5. From the Insert tab, select Text Box and Simple Text Box.
6. With the text box selected, select the Format tab of the Drawing Tools
7. Select Wrap Text Wrap and then In Front of Text.
8. With the sample text highlighted, paste in the page number.
Delete any extra lines that may have also been inserted.
9. Resize the text box so it only encases the page number.
10. With a text box selected, select the Format tab of the Drawing Tools
a. Choose Rotate > Rotate 90 degrees.
b. Select Position > More Layout Options.
c. In the edit box, uncheck Move objects with text.
d. In the Horizontal section, change the Relative position to 0.3 to the Right of the Page.
e. In the Vertical section, select Alignment > Centered > relative to Page.
f. Click OK.
11. In the Format tab of the Design tools, change the Shape Fill to No Fill and the Shape Outline to No Outline.