Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated May 25, 2019)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
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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2021-06-03 11:47:31
Hannah
Agree with previous comment from Rocco: it seems like it should work this way, and I seem to be able to set different orientations for different sheets within a workbook, but when I go to print multiple sheets with differently-set orientations, they all print the same way. This is also in Excel 2016. Is there a fix?
2020-03-28 11:39:12
Rocco
Yes. That's how I used to do it, but it does not work that way in Excel 2016. After setting different orientations of selected sheets, then choosing to print all of them, the orientation changes to align with one sheet. Is Excel 2016 incapable of printing different orientations in a workbook in one printing? A Google search indicates that others have this issue.
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