Printing a Spreadsheet
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Printing a Spreadsheet

Printing a spreadsheet is basically done by selecting File->Print... which brings up TDE's common Print dialog box where you can choose, among other options, the printer to be used, the number of copies and whether all or only selected pages are to be printed.

By default KSpread will print all items in the current worksheet, but you can restrict this by first selecting the area that you want to be printed then choosing Define Print Range from the Format->Print Range sub menu.

KSpread will print as many pages as are necessary to include all items in the current worksheet. You can quickly see how a worksheet will be spilt into separate pages for printing by checking the View->Show Page Borders box. The boundaries of each printed page will then be marked by colored lines in the worksheet.

For a more detailed view of what is to be sent to the printer, including anything you have asked to be included in the page headers and footers (see below), choose File->Print Preview....

To improve the appearance of the printed output , you can change the fonts, colors, borders and sizes of the cells in the worksheet, see the Spreadsheet Formatting section for more details about how to do this.

You can also use the Page Layout dialog box, invoked by selecting Format->Page Layout..., to change the orientation of the printed pages, the paper size (this should be suitable for your printer) and the size of the page borders.

The Header & Footer page of the Page Layout dialog box also lets you add text, including items such as the filename, date and page number to the header and footer, of each printed page.

The Ranges section of the Options page of the Page Layout dialog box provides an alternative way of restricting the printed output to just one part of the worksheet and allows you to repeat selected column(s) or row(s) on each printed page. This page also lets you select whether or not to print the grid, comment indicators and formula indicators, objects and charts. In the section Scale Printout you can set a scalefactor or limit the number of pages for the print.

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