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How to Do Landscape in PowerPoint

Updated on:
June 9, 2026
By:
Madhav Bhandari
Use this interactive demo to learn how to switch your PowerPoint slides to landscape orientation.

Quick summary

To set landscape orientation in PowerPoint, open the Design tab, navigate to Slide Size, and select Custom Slide Size to change the orientation. This quick setting ensures your presentation slides display in the correct landscape layout every time.


Steps

  1. Open the Design tab in PowerPoint.
  2. Click Slide Size from the Design toolbar.
  3. Select Custom Slide Size from the dropdown menu.
  4. Under Orientation, choose Landscape.
  5. Click OK to apply the landscape orientation to your slides.

📌 Why this matters

Knowing how to set landscape orientation in PowerPoint is a fundamental presentation skill that ensures your slides are correctly formatted for widescreen displays, projectors, and printed handouts. The landscape layout maximizes horizontal space, making it the default and most professional choice for business presentations, pitch decks, and reports. Microsoft PowerPoint's Slide Size settings give users precise control over slide dimensions and orientation, enabling consistent and polished presentation design. Mastering this setting helps presenters avoid formatting issues when sharing or printing slides across different devices and platforms.
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