Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Scaling Your Printing.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 25, 2018)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Worksheets can get very big, very fast. Often you want to still print an entire worksheet in a single sheet of paper. Excel makes this easy to do by using scaling. All you need to do is follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Page tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
One of the tricks I often use is to set the Fit To settings to 1 page wide by 99 pages tall. In this way, I am sure the output will fit on one page across. Since my output isn't over 99 pages in length, no shrinking is done on this dimension. I end up with output that is 1 page wide by how ever many pages long Excel needs to print.
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2021-04-07 12:45:20
Thomas
Hi Allen,
I work in spreadsheets that often are over 50 pages, and print these pages to teams in my organization. Invariably, I run into this scaling issue when printing to PDF, and often use custom scaling for each page to fit to one page.
Looking for a better way, I found this tip to use "Fit To" 1x99. This works for *some* pages, but lots of pages have rows that get cut off at the bottom, or columns that duplicate to the right. I end up needing to go through each page still and custom scale those pages for which this trick doesn't quite work.
Do you have any further insight on this issue?
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