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Microsoft Excel - Print a worksheet in landscape or portrait orientation
By default, Excel prints worksheets in portrait orientation (taller than wide). You can change the page orientation to landscape on a worksheet-by-worksheet basis.
- Select the worksheet or worksheets for which you want to change the orientation.
How to select worksheetsTo select
Do this
A single sheet
Click the sheet tab.
If you don't see the tab that you want, click the tab scrolling buttons to display the tab, and then click the tab.
Two or more adjacent sheets
Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down Shift while you click the tab for the last sheet that you want to select.
Two or more nonadjacent sheets
Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down Ctrl while you click the tabs of the other sheets that you want to select.
All sheets in a workbook
Right-click a sheet tab, and then click Select All Sheets.
Tip: When multiple worksheets are selected, [Group] appears in the title bar at the top of the worksheet. To cancel a selection of multiple worksheets in a workbook, click any unselected worksheet. If no unselected sheet is visible, right-click the tab of a selected sheet, and then click Ungroup Sheets.
- On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Orientation, and then click Portrait or Landscape.
Note: If you don'w have a printer set up, the Orientation option will appear dimmed and you won't be able to select it. To resolve this, you must set up a printer. The option also appears dimmed when you're editing the contents of a cell. To resolve this, press Enter to accept the changes or Esc to cancel the changes.
Tip: Because you can set page orientation on a worksheet-by-worksheet basis, you might print some workshets in a workbook in one orientation (such as portrait orientation). Simply set the orientation for each worksheet as appropriate, and then Print a worksheet or workbook.
- Select the worksheet, worksheets, or worksheet data that you want to print.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Print or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P for a Windows computer or Cmd+P for a Mac.
- In the Page Orientation drop-down box, under Settings, click Portrait Orientation or Landscape Orientation.
- When you are ready to print, click Print.
- Create a workbook.
- Select the worksheet or worksheets for which you want to change the orientation
How to select worksheets
To select
Do this
A single sheet
Click the sheet tab.
If you don't see the tab that you want, click the tab scrolling buttons to display the tab, and then click the tab.
Two or more adjacent sheets
Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down Shift while you click the tab for the last sheet that you want to select.
Two or more nonadjacent sheets
Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down Ctrl while you click the tabs of the other sheets that you want to select.
All sheets in a workbook
Right-click a sheet tab, and then click Select All Sheets.
Tip: When multiple worksheets are selected, [Group] appears in the title bar at the top of the worksheet. To cancel a selection of multiple worksheets in a workbook, click any unselected worksheet. If no unselected sheet is visible, right-the tab of a selected sheet, and then click Ungroup Sheets.
- On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Orientation, and then click Landscape.
Note: If you don't have a printer set up, the Orientation option will appear dimmed, and you won't be able to select it. To resolve this, you must set up a printer. The option also appears dimmed when you're editing the contents of a cell. To resolve this, press Enter to accept the changes or Esc to cancel the changes. - Make any other customization that you want to the workbook.
Tip: If you want to customize several worksheets at one time, you can temporarily group the worksheets, make your changes, and then ungroup them. To group the worksheets, right-click any tab at the bottom of the worksheet. On the shortcut menu, click Select All Sheets. In the title bar, you should see the name of the workbook followed by the word [Group]. Then, change the orientation to landscape to make any other customization that you want. To turn off the grouping, right-click any tab, and then click Ungroup Sheets (or just click another worksheet tab). - Click the File tab.
- Click Save As, then select the location where you want to save your worksheet. For example, click Computer (or This PC in Excel 2016), and then click Desktop.
- In the File name box, type the name that you want to use for the template.
- in the Save as type box, click Excel Template (*.xltx), or click Excel Macro-Enabled Template (*.xltm) if the workbook contains macros that you want to make available in the template.
- Click Save.
The template is automatically saved in the Templates folder.
- Click the File tab.
- Click New.
- Click Personal.
- Click the icon or name of your saved template.