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Previewing page breaks

Previewing page breaks - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Previewing page breaks

Another approach to printing begins with the idea that you'd like to get a preview of what your printout is going to look like. In the status bar, the three buttons in the lower right-hand corner include a button called Page Break Preview. And as we click this, the screen changes and we see blue borders and possibly dotted lines as well. If you start to scroll in this list, as I'm doing here, recognize the watermark depiction here of Page 1, over in the left-hand side--up to the right in this example it's Page 18. So as we scroll up and down here, we see these. Now, with Page Break Preview, you have the option here of controlling not only the breaks, but the actual borders here. It's good to get an actual preview here. If you do have available in your Quick Access Toolbar, the Print Preview button, we added this in an earlier movie, you can click that or possibly press Ctrl+F2 or maybe even go to the File tab and choose Print. Any of those three ways gives us the Print Preview. And as…

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