When I have shared workbooks with others that needed to be printed--and since I
never knew what kinds of printers would be used, I always made my margins more
than I needed.

I always tried to be conservative with pagebreaks. I'd put manual page breaks
in before my printer would need them.

I'd widen columns just a bit. This was useful with dates, too--some formats are
picked up from the user's regional settings and they could be different for me.

As a recipient of documents that needed to be adjusted (not all senders are as
conscientious as you!), I'd much rather spend a little time formatting for my
printer that get a PDF file. But that will depend on how comfortable the
recipients are with excel.

PDF files are pretty, but I just can't do as much with them.

(And then I learned to accept that somethings are beyond my control!)

mianiro wrote:

Thank you

Can you suggest anyway to get around this? Does each spreadsheet have
to be configured for each setting/driver? I want this spreadsheet to
come out the same for all clients. Would a PDF be a better way to go?

Dave Peterson wrote:
Yep.

Take page breaks for instance. With different printers (and different physical
margins), the pagebreaks may not be in the same location.



mianiro wrote:

Can a printer driver or video card effect the way excel displays and
prints out spreadsheets?

I have tested the same spreadsheet on different computers with
different printers. The spreadsheet prints out differently on some of
the computers.

Thank you for any help

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Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson