Different page orientation in new section?

I have a Word document I'd rather do in Pages, so I am recreating it. I need to have the first section in vertical orientation, and the second section in landscape (horizontal). Is there a way to do this? When I ask for a new section and change the page layout, it changes the whole document.

Penny
I agree in some ways that you shouldn't change the good parts, but disagree on the point that if an outside idea is a good one it should not matter where it has been used.
All programs have their faults and IMHO Pages has a disproportionate share, to the point I really find it difficult to use productively for almost any kind of work.
I storm through work with iText Pro where I trundle in Pages. That is despite iText Pro having a relatively clumsy method of implementing and applying styles, and lacks floating objects.
On more than one occasion I have tried to use Pages for serious work only to founder on one or more fatal stumbling blocks, despite having steadfastly ignored its maimed User Interface. You can't accuse me of not knowing the program.
In the end there is its doomed .pdf output to put the nail into the coffin of any real work I might do.
It holds a tantalising glimpse of what it could be however, and there is always the next version and the next version to inspire hope.
Peter

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The advice given for iBA, is to preplan your book. Modify an exsiting template as your layout suits you, to present a quality book to your readers.
iBooks Author is really more "app" than a book maker like inDesign or even Pages, - and users should really get to know how to use it before starting out on a serious project.
The insert options are clear - you can insert a Chapter from MS Word or Pages in iBA a "chapter" is a distinct "standalone" part of a book which can include sections and pages as required. Sections can be moved up or down within their chapter or can be copied from one chapter to another. The pages in any chapter are static and the only way to change content location is copy and paste.
From your post, its seems you decided to create you book using Pages and in one chapter expecting iBA to reformat it.
I would suggest a solution is to count your chapters and add that number into an iBA new book, then copy your Pages chapters. I would guess that the whole process would take less than 30 minutes.
Apple recieves feedback and suggestions for improvements, however the last update made very few changes to the application and none of those seen in many posts - such as being able to move pages. This indicates that Apple at least, are satisfied that the version is functional enough for how Apple see books being made for its store. 12 months ago this forum was taking hundreds of posts per day asking advice, its now a trickle- which I take to be in indicator that as a group, iBA users have taught themselves how to use the application and its many options and third party add on's. iBA is more suited to the interactive side of publications as Apple intended, creating a mainly text only "novel" seems to be considered by Apple as the easy part!

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I am trying to have both portrait and landscape page orientations in the same document. Pages doesn't seem to like this. Is there a way?

I tried to comment on another thread about this same issue, but the thread was closed.
In the other thread; however, some asked why rotating one pages was necessary, and if they knew then maybe there would be reason to create the function.
Well, I don't know about why anyone else needs it, but for me it's for the papers I have to write for my masters program. The professors like to have the rubric attached to the bottome of the document so they easily grade and keep things organized. They of course give directions on how to easily change the orientation of the last page in Word, but not all of use Word, or even want to use Word. Maybe I need to ditch Pages and go to Word? I'd really hate to do that!
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