Comments on: Excel Printing Tips – 6 Steps For Perfect Printing

By: Eyal Sela

Eyal Sela — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:12:12 +0000

Well, I don’t know exactly how to explain this, but printing to PDF is a bit closer to the real thing, so it gives you a better perspective. I guess it’s also psychological…

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:34:37 +0000

Print to PDF? What is wrong with Print-Preview?

By: Eyal Sela

Eyal Sela — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:48:58 +0000

Hi Hamal, if you try it, please tell us…

By: Eyal Sela

Eyal Sela — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:48:16 +0000

You are absolutely right…

By: fourstar

fourstar — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:39:31 +0000

Whilst I know it isn’t a Print issue, I wouldn’t let this go out without formatting Column C as ‘Date’ so it looked consistent

By: HamalSharatan

HamalSharatan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:46:54 +0000

Good tips, I wonder if they work with OpenOffice Calc.

By: Eyal Sela

Eyal Sela — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:08:19 +0000

Thanks Terry, These are both good tips.

I also print to PDF (or ‘print to a file’) to see how it’ll look like when printed on paper.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:02:24 +0000

The one thing I due differently is in step 5 and limits the ‘cost’ of squeezing everything into one page. Most of the time I just want the width to be squeezed, not the length. So I set my width to ’1′ while then setting the length to ’99′

It will not print 99 pages, it will end printing after all of your data is out. But setting it to ’99′ I never have to figure out what that value is and I never short change myself.

One last note, I always print to a PDF first, then if it checks out the way I want it to, I then send the PDF to hard copy.