How do you determine in VBA the range that will be printed
on a worksheet when the print area for that sheet has not
been set?

I would expect some kind of PrintRange property of the
worksheet.pagesetup object but I have not been able to
find anything like this. (I remember something similar in
the old Excel Macro language?)

As the application places a dotted line around the Print
range (after the first preview) I would expect that this
range would be available.

In a multiple page worksheet I can determine the ranges of
all but the last page using the HPageBreaks and
VPageBreaks property of the worksheet object. However, I
cannot determine the range of the last page.

Any ideas?

Hi,

If no print area is set, the Printarea is empty, but Excel
then by default prints everthing between cell A1 and the
last cell that is in use. So:

Sub test()
Dim sArea As String
sArea = ActiveSheet.PageSetup.PrintArea
If sArea = "" Then
With ActiveSheet
sArea = .Range("a1", .Cells.SpecialCells
(xlLastCell).Address).Address
End With
End If
MsgBox sArea
End Sub


Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

-----Original Message-----
How do you determine in VBA the range that will be
printed
on a worksheet when the print area for that sheet has not
been set?

I would expect some kind of PrintRange property of the
worksheet.pagesetup object but I have not been able to
find anything like this. (I remember something similar in
the old Excel Macro language?)

As the application places a dotted line around the Print
range (after the first preview) I would expect that this
range would be available.

In a multiple page worksheet I can determine the ranges
of
all but the last page using the HPageBreaks and
VPageBreaks property of the worksheet object. However, I
cannot determine the range of the last page.

Any ideas?
.