Excel 2003 printing problem

[juniorcarl]

Hello, I posted my problem on the Microsoft Office Discussion Group bu
didn't receive any help. I'm hoping that experts from this forum may b
able to help.

Here's the thread copied from the Microsoft Office Discussion Group:

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By: carl (search by author) In: microsoft.public.excel.misc

I'm getting a lot of grief from trying to get a printout in Excel 200
that used to work perfectly in Excel XP.

I have a one page spreadsheet that I print on a regular basis. I se
the scaling to fit 1 page wide by 1 page tall and center the pag
horizontally and vertically. The printout fits beautifully in Excel X
until I migrated to Excel 2003.

In Excel 2003, the printout is noticeably smaller with an annoyin
gap/margin on the left and bottom of the page.

I've ensured that all the settings remain consistent with my Excel X
settings. In fact, on the preview page, Excel 2003 shows the correc
layout but astonishingly, the actual printout is way off! I understan
that it's not necessarily WYSIWYG, but the difference is just to
distinct.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? If yes, how do you resolv
it? Printing never used to so difficult and annoying...

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By: Loli (search by author) In: microsoft.public.excel.misc

Carl, that has happened to me when going from a laserjet printer to
inkjet. Are you using the same printer with both versions of Excel o
are you trying to print in different printers as well?

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By: carl (search by author) In: microsoft.public.excel.misc

I'm using the same HP LaserJet printer for both versions of Excel.

One thing I didn't mention is that when I convert my spreadsheet i
Excel 2003 to PDF and print it, the result is as per the preview page
i.e. it fits the paper perfectly.

It's going to be a pain having to convert to PDF each time I want t
get the correct printout..

 

[Nick Hodge]

Carl

Have you tried re-applying the print driver. Excel interacts through this
and installing new versions can often screw things up.

If not, does a new file, created in the new version print ok. I have had
several workbooks, built in old versions act weird when trying to open in a
new one.

One method of overcoming this has been to save it out to HTML and then
re-open as an excel spreadsheet. Don't know hat it does but it sometimes
works

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)

 

[juniorcarl]

I will try to reinstall the printer driver once I get back to office o
Monday.

Cheers