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Subject:Re: Excel pagination Help From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:05 -0700
Do you have the page scaling option set to "Fit to # page(s) wide by
## tall"? That can cause automatic downscaling when you set a manual
page break.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, jopakent <jopakent -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> I am feeling absolutely brain dead right now. I'm trying to do something
> that seems so simple, yet I keep spinning my wheels. I've got a large-ish
> spreadsheet that I need to print out to include in a presentation. The row
> heights vary a good deal, based on the content. Some of the content ranges
> from a couple of sentences (approx 1") to several paragraphs (some are 4 or
> 5 inches).
>
>
>
> The issue I am having is trying to get the printed output to paginate so
> that I don't have some pages with a single skinny row. The problem is that
> when I use the Page Break Preview view to display the existing page breaks
> and then drag the breaks to where I want them, the scaling shifts for the
> entire sheet. That's not the look I want. I've got my column and page
> margins and text size set up to read just the way I want them. (There are
> multiple sheets and I want them all to look the same), so when Excel tweaks
> the scaling down to 58%, it messes up what I'm looking for.
>
>
>
> So my question is, how do I change the placement of the page break, without
> changing the Scaling setting on the Page Setup dialog box.
>
>
>
> XP SP2 and Excel 2002, plz cc me directly as I'm on digest, and thanks a ton
> in advance as I'm (of course) on a deadline.
>
>
>
> J. Paul Kent
>
>
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