Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 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: Printing a Short Selection.
You may have a need to periodically print only a portion of a worksheet. Excel allows you to print a selection by following these steps if you are using Excel 2007:
Figure 1. The Print dialog box.
Microsoft dispensed with the Print dialog box beginning with Excel 2010; it is no longer the defacto way you start to print. If you are using Excel 2010 or a later version, follow these steps instead:
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2018-05-26 11:58:02
James Woolley
@Gerd Schumann: In Excel, press F1, then type "protect" in the search box.
2018-05-26 05:48:23
Gerd Schumann
Many years ago we were using Quattro. The best feature was that with one shortcut command you could protect every formula on a spread sheet so that nobody could muck up your formulas (unless you knew the password established for this).
I have never been able to find this feature on Excel but still miss the good old days when I did not have to worry that someone would alter any formulas. Anything else was accessible to users to change anyway they liked.
Would you or anybody else be able to help with this?
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