How to Lay a Sheet Landscape in WordPad? | Change Document Orientation

Office automation programs are part of people’s daily lives. Everyone needs to a greater or lesser extent to use software on their computer for some simple tasks, usually in text documents.

Wordpad is an office software that is on a scale of complexity above the notepad and below the Microsoft Office program. Thus, an office automation program for computers is quite useful for medium complexity tasks and for devices lacking high specs.

Even being a lower version than Microsoft’s proposal, it is quite a competent program for more tasks than you could imagine in the first instance: making concept maps in Wordpad or other types of files is possible.

How do you change the orientation of a page in WordPad?

On some occasions we will need to make documents whose pages are oriented horizontally (or modify the document in the middle of the march). While Wordpad lacks certain features, basic things like changing the orientation of a page is an available option.

Go to ‘Configure page’

First you must open the document to which you want to change its orientation and then go to the program taskbar located at the top of the Wordpad window. From there you can also make other changes to the document.

To access the section that interests us we must go to File> Page Setup. This will open a new window with different configuration sections of the document page we are using.

Change orientation

It only remains to change the orientation of the page. To do this, you have to go to the “Orientation” section: there you will see the two options of “Vertical” and “Horizontal”, choose the Horizontal option and click “OK” to change the page orientation.

This is all you need to do and if you want the following pages to also have a horizontal orientation the change you have already made is enough: this modification will also affect the next pages.

If you want to reverse the changes in the orientation of the document pages: you just have to repeat the whole process and select this time in the final step the orientation “Portrait”. Once you do, just click on “Accept” and that’s it.

Adjust the size and margins

Other options available in this section are those of resize and the page margins. To do this, simply go to these sections and modify the parameters of the document that interest us.

Well, although Wordpad is a program with many limitations, it has a wide variety of customization options such as activating the Wordpad word counter or other aids for improve user experience in the program.

How to create a custom size and orientation for your future sheets?

To change the page orientation of future documents, we will have to open the program (however we must open it without using a document). Once you open it, go back to the taskbar and go to File> Page Setup and you will see again the same pop-up window in which you modified the document previously.

All the changes you make in this window without having another file open will be reflected in all the new documents you make in Wordpad. Keep in mind that Existing documents will retain their previous settings so you will have to create new documents or modify existing ones.

These are the methods to modify the page orientation in your Wordpad documents. Don’t forget that you can modificar other document parameters from the same window. Although Wordpad is not a widely used program today because it lacks certain functions, it is still quite useful for simpler text documents.

If you have problems making any changes to your documents or general problems with the Wordpad program, contact Microsoft customer support to help you solve complex problems.