Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Will You Need to Print the Worksheet?

Before you start work on a worksheet, you also need to ask yourself whether you will need to print the worksheet. You might realize that you don’t need to worry about printing at all, if, for example, you are going to use the worksheet for information storage or reference purposes only.

If you will want to print the worksheet, consider how your data will look and how the worksheet will work on paper. This will make a huge difference to your overall worksheet design. For example, the worksheet in Figure 5-2 will require two pages to print, even if you orient it horizontally (using Landscape Orientation on the Page Layout tab on the Ribbon). The second page of the printout will contain some of the monthly totals, ...