Hi Mike,

You can select the cells surrounding your page and set the fill color
to white or whatever, best to go a few extra columns and rows past
the end of your screen. I like to insert a blank column A and row 1
so that I can run the margin color right around my page.

You can also apply borders between your margin and your data.
If you don't want the border to print, set your print area one row
and column smaller.

Another one for visual effect is to hide the row and column
headers by going to ToolsOptionsView Tab and uncheck
row and column headers.

If your page fits neatly on one screen you can also zoom in to say
75% then select a cell well off to the bottom right of your page
and go to WindowFreeze Panes. When you zoom back to
100% your page won't move with the scroll bars.

This is all fiddly little smoke and mirrors type stuff but Excel
has never pretended to be a layout program. It's a worksheet
program with a bit of formatting capability thrown in.

HTH
Martin



"Mike Defillo" wrote in message
...
Just as you would with MS Word it may go to a second page if the first one
is
full but why does Excel show other pages to the right of the page I am
working? When I scroll to the right the page keeps going and going. I do
not
need all that page, at least not this time? I thought print layout only
shows
one page but the other pages are still visible. It is not a big deal but I
made up a 8-1/2" X 11" time card with Excel and don't need to see all the
rest of the stuff. It prints as I expect (1 page) but on screen I just
want
to see 1 8-12/" X 11" sheet when I open it?

Thank for your input
Mike

"Harimau" wrote:

What do you mean by one page? As in one worksheet, or as in print layout?

"Mike Defillo" wrote:

How do I work on one page without seeing other pages on my monitor. I
only
want to see one page at a time, not multiple pages.
Mike