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Al asked if there was a way to change the rotation on an Excel worksheet printed in landscape mode. The landscape pages are rotated by automatically by Excel, but he wants to adjust that by rotating an additional 90 degrees. This way it will print correctly for the three-hole paper on which he is printing.
There is nothing intrinsic in Excel that allows you to specify the rotation on printed pages. Also, there is no way to do this from within a macro. Some printers may allow you to control rotation within the printer driver itself, but it is pretty certain that most will not.
The solution may be as simple as rotating the paper in your printer's paper tray by however many degrees you need. (I do this all the time with my printer to get the "holes" on the right side of the printout.) This may not be possible in some printers, however, and it may mess up printing for some of your other applications.
A third-party solution may be the best way to do what you want. For instance, you may want to check out products such as ClickBook, from Blue Squirrel Software.
https://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/clickbook/
This recommendation should not be taken as an endorsement of the software; we have not tested it in any way. The product description indicates it will work with Excel and it will rotate pages. (And, it appears, do a heck of a lot of other things.) Undoubtedly there are other competing products available through a search of the Internet.
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2025-09-15 09:58:20
DaveS
To extend CADcliff's suggestion, the pdf can be created with individual worksheets oriented as required using a simple macro along the lines of the following:nnSub Printpdf()nn Dim SheetArray As Variantn Dim wks As Variantn n'define array of worksheets to printn SheetArray = Array("Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3")n n'set orientation of each worksheet (defaults to portrait)n For Each wks In SheetArrayn Select Case Sheets(wks).Namen Case "Sheet1", "Sheet3"n Sheets(wks).PageSetup.Orientation = xlLandscapen Case Elsen Sheets(wks).PageSetup.Orientation = xlPortraitn End Selectn Nextn n'print to pdfn Sheets(SheetArray).Selectn ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, _n Filename:="C:\Documents\Report.pdf", _n Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _n IncludeDocProperties:=True, _n IgnorePrintAreas:=FalsennEnd SubnnObviously the folder referenced in 'Filename' needs to exist on your PC.
2025-09-13 23:10:29
CADcliff
I might suggest printing the Excel sheet to a PDF output. Then you can rotate the PDF pages before printing the paper copy.
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