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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 13, 2025)
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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:
Sub Printpdf()
Dim SheetArray As Variant
Dim wks As Variant
'define array of worksheets to print
SheetArray = Array("Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3")
'set orientation of each worksheet (defaults to portrait)
For Each wks In SheetArray
Select Case Sheets(wks).Name
Case "Sheet1", "Sheet3"
Sheets(wks).PageSetup.Orientation = xlLandscape
Case Else
Sheets(wks).PageSetup.Orientation = xlPortrait
End Select
Next
'print to pdf
Sheets(SheetArray).Select
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, _
Filename:="C:\Documents\Report.pdf", _
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False
End Sub
Obviously 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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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, and Excel in Microsoft 365. 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:
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