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When Greg prints his workbook, he would like some worksheets to print in portrait orientation and some to print in landscape orientation. Greg knows he can print the worksheets one at a time, but he would like to print the workbook in one go. He wonders if there is some way to do this.
Actually, it is easier than one would think. Excel allows you to set the page parameters independently for each worksheet in a workbook. Thus, you can set some as landscape and some as portrait and later just print the whole workbook. Excel keeps track and orients the printing properly for each worksheet.
Here's the easy way to set orientation for a group of worksheets:
Figure 1. The Page Setup dialog box.
When you later want to print your worksheets, simply select the worksheets you want to print before doing the print, or display the Print dialog box and specify that you want to print the entire workbook.
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2017-03-03 13:54:18
Willy Vanhaelen
@miffthebino
You can't. In a single sheet all pages are printed portrait or landscape. A mix is not possible.
You can however set a different orienation for each sheet because each Excel sheet has it's own print settings. So you can set Sheet1 for portrait and Sheet2 for landscape.
2017-03-02 08:40:04
miffthebino
How do you change orientations within a single tab in Excel?
2017-01-29 13:08:36
Willy Vanhaelen
@Boss
You don't need a macro for that. Each Excel sheet has it's own print settings. So you can set Sheet1 for portrait and Sheet2 for landscape.
2017-01-27 15:37:10
Boss
Can you do this in a macro? So that your macro will print the first sheet portrait, and the second sheet landscape?
2015-11-08 13:25:46
Willy Vanhaelen
@Mahudin
You can do it manually.
- Print your first page Landscape
- Change the print settings to Portrait
- Print you second page
2015-10-29 07:15:06
Muhudin
Dear Sir,
Can I Print One Page Landscape And The Next Page Portrait on one worksheet?
Awaiting yours.
Muhudin
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