Chapter 8. Printing Worksheet Information

Set Margins

You can control the amount of unprinted area that Excel allots as white space on each side of each printed page by changing the margin settings. By default, Excel sets the top and bottom margins to allow for .75 inches of white space and the left and right margins to allow for .7 inches of white space. Excel also allows .3-inch margins for the header and footer area.

The margins for the header and footer areas control the distance of the header from the top of the page and the footer from the bottom of the page. The margins for the header and footer areas should be smaller than the margins for the top and bottom of the page. If the header and footer margins are the same as or bigger than the ...

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