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There are two types of page breaks that can appear in an Excel worksheet: manual or automatic. You insert page breaks manually by using the Breaks tool on the Page Layout tab of the ribbon. Automatic page breaks are those that are calculated by Excel based on various settings, such as page size, margins, cell size, and the like.
Excel allows you to control whether page breaks are displayed on-screen (as dashed lines) by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Advanced options of the Excel Options dialog box.
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2019-07-23 22:43:28
rob
If this option is not selected, page breaks will also be displayed on the worksheet (for the session) after doing a print preview.
2019-07-21 11:36:04
Willy Vanhaelen
@Allan
I you have no objection to using macros, you can copy this one to your personal workbook and asign it to a button in the QAT:
Sub TogglePageBreaks()
ActiveSheet.DisplayPageBreaks = Not ActiveSheet.DisplayPageBreaks
End Sub
It has the advantage that you can turn it on and off at a flip of a switch and also quickly remove them after printing.
2019-07-21 07:03:24
Peter Atherton
Allan
Select all the sheet Tabs before following the instructions in the article. I've only done this in a almost blank workbook but is should work. See the figure
(see Figure 1 below)
Figure 1. Page Breaks for multiple pages
2019-07-20 13:16:10
Allan
Unfortunately, must do this separately for each Worksheet. Would be nice if could do this for a whole Workbook.
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