

From the Page Layout Ribbon, click the icon for Margins. To check this, select the tab for Page Layout and click the icon for Orientation ( Figure A). That usually–but not always–means landscape mode. This may seem obvious, but check the orientation before you print. LEARN MORE: Office 365 Consumer pricing and features How to check the orientation before printing Excel spreadsheets Whatever went wrong, you can avoid many printing problems in Excel by following certain tips, such as tweaking the margins, setting the print area, scaling the sheet to print, and choosing the right sheet options.įor these steps, I’m using Excel 365 as part of an Office 365 subscription, but most of the advice here applies to the past couple of versions of Excel as well. Perhaps a certain section of your spreadsheet never printed or the spreadsheet took too many pages to print. Maybe it printed in portrait mode when it should’ve printed landscape. You’ve just sent an Excel spreadsheet to your printer, but when you check it, you discover that the spreadsheet didn’t print right. Printing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can be tricky, but you can avoid most printing problems by following these tips.

In the Preview window, click Margins.How to fix common printing problems in Microsoft Excel.From the File menu, select Print Preview.Check Show margins, and then drag the margins to the desired size.In the upper left, click the Office Button.On the Page Layout tab, click Margins, and then.Click Print Area, and choose Set Print Area.Highlight the area of your spreadsheet that you want to print.Use the arrows to increase or decrease the margin sizes, or enter.On the Page Layout tab, click Margins, and then select.Margins., adjust the values for each margin that you want

Choose a different pre-set option, or select Custom.Under "Settings", select the Normal Margins drop-down menu.To adjust the page margins on a printed spreadsheet in Excel, you can use

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