Portrait and Landscape pages in the same MSWORD file

[Golan2072]

For a Traveller article I am writing, I want to fit a BIG table, which requires a landscape page orientation, in a MSWORD file which is mostly regular text in a portrait page orientation. How do I do this? Could I, instead, rotate the table by 90 degrees so it will fit a page when "on its side"?

 

[aramis]

For a Traveller article I am writing, I want to fit a BIG table, which requires a landscape page orientation, in a MSWORD file which is mostly regular text in a portrait page orientation. How do I do this? Could I, instead, rotate the table by 90 degrees so it will fit a page when "on its side"?

Should be able to, but I've not fired up word in about 4 years... I do recall that rotating tables inside word was a pain.

 

[whulorigan]

For a Traveller article I am writing, I want to fit a BIG table, which requires a landscape page orientation, in a MSWORD file which is mostly regular text in a portrait page orientation. How do I do this? Could I, instead, rotate the table by 90 degrees so it will fit a page when "on its side"?

You need to rotate the page orientation for the affected pages.

Type your regular text in the normal portrait orientation. When you come to the part with the table, place a "Section Break/Next Page" into the document. Then change the page orientation to landscape on the new page. Insert your table, and then after the table is inserted, put another "Section Break/Next Page" after it and change the orientation back to portrait on the new page.