Spreadsheets Page Setup And Printing

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Step by step guide to some of the options when printing in Excel. Includes print preview, page breaks, page setup and formula view

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Learn how to:

• See what your printed spreadsheet will look like

• Change margins, page layouts and headings

• Put in page breaks• Print the spreadsheet showing the

formulae that you used

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Print Preview

• It’s always a good idea to see what your print out will look like before you actually print it.

• Then you can avoid wasting paper and printer ink.

• You can do this by using Print Preview

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Print Preview:

Just click File, then choose Print Preview

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Print Preview:

Now you can see if your print out looks OK.

If it doesn’t, you will need to change some things before you print.

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Page Breaks

• Excel often puts half of a table on one page and the other half on another page. Not much good!

• You can decide where you want one page to stop and a new page to start using Page Breaks

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Page Breaks:

After you have done a Print Preview, a dotty line like this shows your where one page ends and the next one starts.

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Page Breaks :

If I select this cell and click on Insert, then choosePage Break my page will start at the start of my table.

Much more sensible!

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Page Setup

• You can change the way that your print out will look by using Page Setup

• You can use Page Setup to– Set the paper size– Choose portrait or landscape– Add page headings – And much more!

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Using Page Setup:

1. Click on File and then choose Page Setup

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Using Page Setup:

You will see this dialogue box.

It has several tabs, each one takes you to a different section.

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Using Page Setup:

The page tab

Choose portrait or landscape

Choose a paper size

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Using Page Setup:

The page tab

You can scale your work to make it all fit onto one page, but be careful – you might end up with very small writing!

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Using Page Setup:

The margins tab

Choose the margins you want for your paper

Print in the centre of the paper

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Using Page Setup:

The header/footer tab

Choose Custom Header

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Using Page Setup:

Choose what you want in your heading.

It’s a good idea to type your name as a heading!

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Using Page Setup:

Choose what to print. You might want to tick this to print the gridlines.

The sheet tab

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Printing Out Your Formulas

• You can show someone what calculations your spreadsheet is doing.

• Watch out – this will change all of your column widths, but DON’T PANIC – they will change back!

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Printing Out Your Formulas :

Just click Tools, then choose Options

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Printing Out Your Formulas :

This dialogue box will appear.

Click to put a tick (check) next to formulas.

Then Click OK

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Printing Out Your Formulas :

Now you can see the formulas.This is what will print out

DON’T PANIC about the column

widths! Just leave them as

they are.

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Printing Out Your Formulas :

To change back, just click Tools, then choose Options.

Then get rid of the tick next to formulas. Easy!

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Summary:

• Use Print Preview before you print your work. Choose File -> Print Preview

• Use Page Setup to change the way that your work looks when you print it. Choose File -> Page Setup

• To display your calculations, choose Tools -> Options and click on Formulas