To add the rest of the page breaks, you move the cell pointer to the next cell in column A that has a new customer and select Page Layout, Breaks, Insert Page Break.
#EXCEL FOR MAC PRINT ROW AT EACH PAGE BREAK MANUAL#
Unlike automatic page breaks, manual page break will never move. Excel will now calculate that the end of the second page is at another row.
Say that you change the margins for the page, using Page Layout, Margins. The location for the next automatic page break is now shown at row 55 instead of row 47.Īutomatic page breaks will move around. I am not sure the difference will even show up in the book or e-book.īecause you've added a manual page break after row 8, Excel will automatically calculate that it can fit rows 9 through 54 on page 2. Here is a zoomed-in view of the different dashes used for each break. Slightly longer dashes indicate a manual page break.Excel will draw in a dotted line above the cell pointer to indicate that there is a page break after row 8. You position the cell pointer in column A on the first row for a new customer and then select Page Layout, Breaks, Insert Page Break. You can add a manual page break to any row. The dashed line is an automatic page break.After you do a Print Preview, Excel draws in a dashed line after row 46 to indicate that this is an automatic page break. In this particular report, it turns out that with these margins and print size, Excel would normally offer an automatic page break after row 46. If you access Print Preview and then close Print Preview, Excel will draw in the automatic page breaks. It helps to understand page breaks.Įxcel page breaks can either be automatic or manual. However, let's assume that you cannot use the automatic Subtotals feature for some reason. For more about subtotals, see "Add Subtotals to a Data set" on page 298. In the Subtotal dialog, you can choose to have a page break between groups.
Strategy: The easiest way to do this is to add a subtotal by using the Data, Subtotals command. I want to put each customer on a different page. Problem: My data is sorted by customer in column A.