Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Printing Limited Pages from a Range of Worksheets.
Ian puts together Excel workbooks that typically contain, at minimum, 30 worksheets. Each worksheet, if printed, requires a minimum of eight pages. Ian often updates the data in each worksheet that would appear on the first two printed pages of those worksheets. When it comes time to print, Ian would like a way to print just the first two pages of each worksheet.
When you select a range of worksheets and then choose to print, those worksheets are considered by Excel to be a single, contiguous print job. So, for instance, if you selected 20 worksheets and each worksheet required eight pages, that would not be treated by Excel as 20 individual print jobs of eight pages each, but as a single 160-page print job.
Theoretically you could specify, in the Print dialog box (Excel 2007 and Excel 2010) or the print settings page (Excel 2013), that you wanted to print pages 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 18, etc., but this is prone to error and quite tedious. It gets even more difficult if the worksheets being printed consist of varying numbers of pages.
The best solution is to write a macro that will do the printing for you. The macro can step through however many worksheets you've selected and print only the first two pages of each of those worksheets. The following macro implements this technique:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub PrintTwoPages()
Dim sht As Variant
For Each sht In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
sht.PrintOut From:=1, To:=2, Preview:=True
Next
Set sht = Nothing
End Sub
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2018-12-14 10:52:03
Brian Rowe
You can specify the pages you would like printed in an array in vba. Here's a slimed down version of code I use to print specific worksheets to pdf files. This examples prints odd numbered worksheets from 1 to 11.
ThisWorkbook.Sheets(Array(1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11)).PrintOut
2018-12-13 08:21:52
Jennifer Thomas
I'm not usually a fan of setting print areas, as they tend to confuse less-educated users, but in this case it would be an easy solution (assuming you always want to print just the first two pages of each sheet).
2014-11-12 13:09:40
Carol
Andrew, If you hold Ctrl key while selecting worksheets you can pick non-adjacent worksheets. But you will have to print all pages of those worksheets not just specific pages of each worksheet as tip is talking about.
2014-09-27 05:46:11
Andrew
re "you could specify, in the Print dialog box (Excel 2007 and Excel 2010)... that you wanted to print pages 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 18, etc."
I'm using Excel 2010 and I don't get the option to print selected pages other than a single, contiguous range. I'd very much like to pick sheets, say, "1-2,4,7" of a Workbook but I can't.
2014-09-27 05:31:27
Charles Peone
What happened to report manager? How does Excel handle multi-page, range report printing?
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