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: Clearing the Print Area.
In other issues of ExcelTips you learn how you can set a print area within a worksheet. This special area is used to define exactly what range you want printed. At some point you may need to delete the print area. (By "delete" I mean to get rid of the special area designation, not the information contained within that area.)
To clear the print area, follow these steps:
Pretty easy, huh? Well, there are other ways you can go about clearing the print area, as well. This is one that I like to use from time to time:
Figure 1. The Define Name dialog box.
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2016-11-01 15:01:10
michael thomas
I tried to print my data in portrait format. Then I see that landscape is more suitable. Then I can't clear the (portrait)page area names with neither of your suggestions.
So I marked the page and exported it as a csv file and loaded it back to a new file as xls data. data, columns etc. had to be reformatted.
(I don't know how to export a whole xls file, but exporting a worksheet works)
2015-10-31 21:58:30
John Wirt
Useful tip today. john Wirt
2015-10-31 17:20:21
Mandora
In VBA, the following code will clear a print range before setting a new one.
ActiveSheet.PageSetup.PrintArea = ""
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