Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 9, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Excel in Microsoft 365, and 2021
When you are formatting a worksheet, you may want to see where Excel will insert page breaks in your printout. This is easily done by using the Print Preview option or by using the Page Break Preview feature. (Both of these features are covered in other issues of ExcelTips.) You may also want to see the page breaks when you are again editing the worksheet.
Excel can display page breaks as dashed lines between rows or columns on your worksheet. To enable this display, simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The advanced options of the Excel Options dialog box.
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2023-09-28 14:29:58
J. Woolley
My Excel Toolbox includes the TogglePageBreaks macro to enable or disable display of page breaks on the active worksheet in Normal view.
See my recent comment here: https://excelribbon.tips.net/T008702
And see https://sites.google.com/view/MyExcelToolbox
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