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Excel Print

By Arun GuptaArun Gupta

Print in Excel

Excel Print (Table of Contents)

  • Introduction to Print in Excel
  • How to Set Printing Properties in Excel?
  • Print Settings

Introduction to Print in Excel

Print in Excel is used to print out the data therein spreadsheet but to the width that is allowed for selected and available pages in printer setting. We can print the current sheet, active sheet, entire workbook, any selected table, or any customized range of worksheets. When we are about to print, we should have all the necessary columns under the print preview section. We can even give the border using print gridlines without actually bordering the data in the worksheet.

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Print Command (Keyboard shortcut):

Press Ctrl+P and then click the Print button (or press Enter) to print the workbook.

How to Set Printing Properties in Excel?

To set printing properties in excel is very easy. Let us understand this by looking at the following examples.

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Example #1

How to Print entire workbook with N number of copies in MS Excel

Step 1: Go to Excel Sheet, which a user wants to print. Open the File menu bar and click on print

Print in Excel Example 1-1

Step 2: Now Print setting will open, then under the Setting section, select ‘Print Entire workbook’

Print in Excel Example 1-2

Step 3: Now click on the number of copies needed by the user

Print in Excel Example 1-3

Step 4: To print the workbook, click on the print button.

Print in Excel Example 1-4

Summary: As the user has given instruction in print command, it will print that no of pages with an entire workbook.

Example #2

How to Print selected area workbook with the page orientation in MS Excel

Step 1: Go to Excel Sheet, which a user wants to print, and select the area that needs to be printed.

Print in Excel Example 2-1

Step 2: Open the File menu bar and click on the Print tab.

Print in Excel Example 2-2

Step 3: Now Print setting will open, then under the Setting section, select ‘Print selection’

Print in Excel Example 2-3

Step 4: Now click on the orientation of the page needed by the user.

Print in Excel Example 2-4

Step 5: Click on the print button to print the workbook as per the setting.

Print in Excel Example 2-5

Summary: As per the given instruction in the print command, it will print with the selected area only in landscape orientation.

Print in Excel Example 2-6

Print Settings

Multiple Copies: If a user wants to print more than one copy, he just needs to count how many copies he wants to print in the Copies section.

copy section

Select Printer: There are multiple options to save the workbook; as per the users need; he can select options in the added printer, save as PDF, OneNote, XPS document writer, send FAX or add any new printer.

Select Printer

Print selection: This option will print only the current selection in the print command.

Print Active sheets: This option will print only the active sheet in the workbook.

Print Entire Workbook: This option will print all the workbook pages.

Print selection

Collated: If a user’s workbook contains multiple pages, then there is an option to switch between Collated and Uncollated for a print command.

For example, if the user wants to print 10 copies from a workbook, Collated prints the entire first copy and then the entire second copy.

Or if the user is selecting Uncollated prints 10 copies of page 1, 10 copies of page 2, etc.

Collated

Orientation: A user can switch between Portrait Orientation (best when more rows but fewer columns on a page) and Landscape Orientation (best when more columns but fewer rows on a page).

 Orientation

Page Margins: If a user wants to adjust the page margins, he can do so by following the below steps.

Step 1 – By selecting one of the pre-defined margins (Normal, Wide, or Narrow) from the Margins drop-down list.

Page Margins

Step 2 – Or click the ‘Show Margins’ icon at the bottom right of the window. Now a user can drag the lines to change the page margins manually.

Scaling: If a user wants to fit more and more data on a single page, then he can fit the sheet on one page. To get these settings, he needs to follow the below process.

  • Select ‘Fit Sheet on One Page’ from the Scaling drop-down list.

Scaling

Limitation of Excel Print

  • Excel doesn’t warn a user when your printout becomes unreadable.
  • It is very challenging to adjust the margins from the Preview Pane.
  • When a user prints a worksheet or a table without gridlines, it will be very difficult to distinguish cell boundaries.

Things to Remember About Excel Print

  • If a user does not want to print some page, then he can do from settings where he will get an option of the page, and he can give. Ex- 2 to 10 (Here home page will not be printed)
  • In the Print setting, a user can ignore the print area selection as per his requirement.
  • If a user sets any print area in excel, then only that area will be printed, which the user has selected, and a print area will be saved when a user will save the workbook.
  • A user can also shrink the printout to one page wide or one page high. He just needs to select Custom Scaling Options and need to manually enter a scaling percentage or fit the printout to a specific number of pages wide and tall. Be careful.
  • Under the Header/Footer tab, a user can determine what will be in the header part and what will be in the footer of each of the pages of the printout.
  • Suppose a user doesn’t want a header or a footer. Select the first option, “none”, from the list of the predetermined options.

header footer

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