Printing spreadsheets

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by - delegate Teena [1 post] (2008 Jul 1 Tue, 16:42) Reply

Can I have some tips on printing large spreadsheets that keep the font at a readable size.

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RE: printing spreadsheets

by - trainer Pete platinum contributer [799 posts] (2008 Jul 14 Mon, 11:19) Reply

Hi Teena,

Thank you for your post, and welcome to the forum.

The only way you are going to achieve this is to break your worksheet into manageable chunks, if you use the Page Break Preview operation, View>Page Break Preview, you can manually move the blue dotted lines (page breaks) to positions where you feel a natural page break will occur, this will enable you to shrink the font automatically to fit the size of page, without making it too small that it cannot be read comfortably. Dont forget that you can repeat column and row headers by using the File>Page Setup and choosing the last tab 'Sheet' you will find the options under Print Titles, simply click in the text box then click or drag in the worksheet to indicate which columns/rows are to be repeated.

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Entering text in Multiple Worksheets

If you have a number of worksheets in a workbook that require the same information (data or tables) on each worksheet, this can be done as follows:

Hold down the Ctrl key and click one or more of the additional worksheet tabs (i.e. Sheet2, Sheet3, etc).

In your mainsheet (Sheet1) enter the required data or design a table.

When done 'Click' on the other sheet tabs and you will see that the information entered in Sheet1 is on all the other selected worksheets.

NB Do not forget to deselect the worksheets - otherwise you may add data to the main worksheet and all the selected worksheets will also have that data!

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