Using Excel for Printing Purposes
SharePoint uses Internet Explorer to display and print content, which severely limits the user's control over printing options. You can't, for example, simply print out the contents of a list because IE will print the page as it displays on the screen, including graphics and menus. Changing the page margins and switching to Landscape view can help, but in many cases there are too many rows and columns of information to show up on the print job.
As mentioned in Lesson 10, the Datasheet view's task pane provides several Excel tools, one of which is Print with Excel. To print a list with Excel you must have Excel 2003 installed and should follow these steps:
1. | From within a library or list, click Edit in Datasheet ... |
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