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Excel page break not working
On the Page Layout tab of the ribbon, click the little arrow in the lower right corner of the Page Setup group.
In the Page tab of the Page Setup dialog, check whether the sheet has been set up to fit into 1 page wide by 1 page tall.
In the Sheet tab of this dialog, check whether a print area has been specified.
RCully I suspect that you are looking under File, Page Setup. There you will indeed not find the "Automatic" option. But, 100% sizing is the same as automatic.
But, look on the Page Layout ribbon. There you should see the Automatic options for Height and Width in the Scale to Fit group.
If not, please state your Excel version. Can't really remember if this is something that existed in older versions of Excel for Mac.
Riny_van_Eekelen Thanks for your perseverance!
On the Page Layout ribbon, automatic is definitely shown for both instances - but the problem persists. However, after going to Page Setup/Page/Scaling and reducing (after hit and miss) to 45%, the page breaks where I want it to break whilst keeping just one page wide. With this Scaling at 100%, and Automatic showing, it is back to trying to print 8 pages (instead of one wide and two high).
I'm on Version 16.64 Excel which is part of the Microsoft suite for Mac.
As someone else said, this should be made easier....... Roy
RCully But your initial post was that you didn't have the "Automatic" setting. Now you mention that Excel doesn't automatically print 1 high by 2 wide. Well, isn't that obvious?
Played around a little with page setup and it seems that "Automatic" scaling sets the pages to max 640 pixels wide and max 960 pixels high. Leaving it to Automatic will, in your case, print 8 by 8. If that's not what you want you need to override the Automatic setting and explicitly tell Excel to print 1 wide by 2 high. And when you have done that, you will notice that the scaling percentage will have automatically been set to whatever scaling achieves that. No need to do that by trial and error.
Riny_van_Eekelen due to me not knowing how to reply to you tag name, I don't think you read my previous response. But thanks for your perseverance anyway.
RCully I did see your previous post but didn't see it as a question. Therefore, I did not respond. In case you want to send me a direct message, right-click on the circle with my picture in it and select Message.
- @Riny_van_Eeklen Yes, my initial post did say I didn't have the auto setting - but that was because I wasn't looking in the correct place. From your previous post, I now know where this is.
I have gone back and set auto on and 1 wide by 2 tall and it reverts to the original query (not mine) whereby it prints as requested (1x2) but it doesn't take notice of the page break so it breaks where it wants to (after the page break) as opposed to where I want it to (at the page break).
Someone else suggested that a warning should be shown that altering the width x tall figures which I now tend to agree with as it would have stopped having to create a post with this question.
Thanks again and I have now set it back to auto and 45% scaling. It works as I want it to so all's well with the world (for this at least)