Printing in Excel - Using the Page Setup Dialog Box
The page tab in the Page Setup Dialog Box has three areas of printing options.
- Orientation – Allows you to print sheets sideways (Landscape view). Very useful for
spreadsheets that are just a bit too wide to print using the default portrait view.
- Scaling – Allows you to adjust the size of the
worksheet you are printing. Most often used for shrinking an Excel worksheet to fit on fewer sheets or magnifying a small worksheet to make it easier to read.
- Paper Size and Print Quality
- Paper size – is adjusted most often to accommodate larger worksheets such as changing from the default letter size (8 ½ X 11 inches) to legal size (8 ½ X 14 inches).
- Print quality – has to do with the number of dots per inch (dpi) of ink that are used in printing a page. The higher the dpi number, the higher the quality the print job will be.
- Paper size – is adjusted most often to accommodate larger worksheets such as changing from the default letter size (8 ½ X 11 inches) to legal size (8 ½ X 14 inches).
