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By scaling your worksheet for printing, you can make your data fit to one page. You can shrink your Excel document to fit data on a designated number of pages using the Page Setup option in the Page Layout tab.

Shrink a worksheet to fit on one page

  1. Go to Page Layout > Page Setup launcher on the bottom of the ribbon. 

    Page Layout tab
  2. In the Page Setup dialog box, select the Page tab.

    Page Setup dialog box
  3. Under Scaling, select Fitto.

  4. To fit your document to print on one page, choose 1 page(s) wide by 1 tall in the Fit to boxes.

    Define the "Fit to" option in the Page Setup dialog box.

    Note: Excel shrinks your data to fit on the number of pages specified. You can also adjust the Fit to numbers to print to multiple pages.

  5. Select OK.

Additional information

You can also use page breaks to divide your worksheet into separate pages for printing. While Excel does add page breaks automatically (indicated by a dashed line), you can also insert, move, or delete page breaks in a worksheet.

If you only need to print a section of your worksheet, you can set or clear a print area on a worksheet.

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