Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 31, 2024)
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Excel allows you to specify columns to repeat at the left for printing. Howard wonders, though, if there is a way to select columns to repeat at the right of his selected print range.
The short answer is that there is no way to do this within Excel. You could, if you desired, "fake" the right columns by following these general steps:
This is, obviously, a lot of work. Plus, it presents the opportunity for your worksheet to get messed up, as you are inserting columns and inserting information that is intended just for printing. If you choose to go this route, though, you may want to make sure that you keep a backup copy of the workbook that is unchanged, without any printing-destined modifications.
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2024-09-01 22:11:48
Peter
"Right-to-left document" or "Flip Sheet" displays and prints columns in the reverse order. Under Print Titles on the Page Set group, the "columns repeated at left" are now on the right, despite the heading.
To enable right to left, use the search box or see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel-direction-and-language/0b3913a8-872a-44bb-ba81-333fbd3aaabc
2024-08-31 05:25:42
Ron S
I made a slightly different suggestion
Short answer, don't do it. That is just something MS did not bother to design into Excel back in the 1980's and trying to beat Excel into submission to jump through that specific hoop with either of the techniques I've suggested really isn't worth the grief unless you are getting paid a whole lot of money to do it!
You could try a technique from word. I'll tell you up front, it won't be fun!
* screen capture the columns. You are going to have to add white space to make the columns appear on the right side of the page
* Use The Page Layout tab > Page Setup group > Dialog Box launcher button to display the Page Setup dialog
* Click on the Header & Footer tab > Custom footer button
* Pick one of the sections, since it is a picture I don't think it matters which one
* Second last button on the right is Insert Picture.
* In the dialog box, find your picture and insert it
* In the dialog box you will only see the text field code "&Picture", you will see the picture in the preview
* OK out of the dialog
It is not pretty, will take some futzing around to get the picture exactly right. And as Allen says, if the page layout changes, new rows/columns will force you to recreate the picture
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