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.
However, printing to PDF is almost the worst possible way to make a PDF from Word, so this isn't normally an issue. when using print preview with Adobe PDF selecting, then printing to Adobe PDF).
NOTE: This article is part of my MS Word Tips and Guide. Print preview should show you what is printed with the current driver if It does not do that (e.g. Selection of page orientation in MS Word.
You can repeat the above steps for changing the layout of any other required page. Find More Commands in the drop-down menu. You will see that the page has turn into landscape but rest of the document is still in portrait layout. Click the small down arrow in the quick access toolbar. In the Page Setup section, click the Orientation option. With the Word document open, click the Layout tab in the Ribbon. In this box, select Orientation as Landscape and select This Section from the “Apply to” list (see the image given below) To change the page orientation for an entire document, follow the steps 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. In MS Word a page can either have have portrait orientation (long) or landscape orientation (wide).