headers and footers on landscape pages

Dear Ewa

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I believe you want to know about section breaks so that you can insert different Headers and footers in your documents. You can’t really specify the headers and footers to be on landscape or portrait pages but you can create several section breaks and insert different headers and footers.

Section breaks are used for splitting your documents into various sections. The advantage of doing this is that you can then have different Headers/Footers in different sections or may be have one section as Landscape and the other section Portrait or may be change the margins on one section leaving the margins as original in the other section.

To insert a section break:

Place your cursor just above where you'd like to place the section break.

Choose Page layout tab on the ribbon

On the page Setup group click on the Breaks drop down arrow choose the section break that you wish to insert i.e. Next Page, Continuous, Even pages and Odd pages.

Press OK and the section break will be created.

Please bear in mind that if you are creating section breaks to have different Headers or footers or Page Margins or Orientation then it is best to choose Next Page Section break.

Once you have created your section breaks simply go to the relevant section and choose Insert tab and choose Edit Header or Footer.

If you want to have a different Header or footer in one section please ensure to click on the “Link to Previous” button on the contextualised Header and Footer tab.

I hope this has helped!! If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!


Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007