Word – Don’t break header/footer when making page landscape format

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I have a document with a footer with page numbering and a header with some centered text.

Long story short: I flipped one page to landscape format.

Long story long: I made a forced page break to get a blank page. I then highlighted this page (that is, I highlighted the empty line on this page) and went to the page proporties menu window, clicked on the landscape format button, and chose to apply this setting for the highlighted text only.

The result: All that is of course no big deal, and my page is flipped the 90 degrees as wished – but my header and footer break! They disappear from this page… and actually also from the next page (which is still upright portrait format), which is weird. And then the header and footer is back on the following pages again, though the page numbering restarts from 1.

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On this screenshot you can see that the previous and the following pages have headers and footers, but not the flipped one and not the page following the flipped one.

What just happened here?

How can I make the page numbering continue without restarting first of all, and then, how can I keep the header and footer on at least the upright page, that suddenly doesn't have them?

Best Answer

Go into the footer of your landscape page, and on the ribbon (Design | Navigation), select "Link to Previous". You will get a warning, click "Yes". This should place the footer text back. (You may need to do the same thing for the the header.)

Next, highlight the page number in the footer. Right click and select "Format page numbers". Select "Continue from previous section" radio button.

Check that the sections after the landscape page have not been affected. If they have, repeat the procedure for those sections.