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How to generate a PDF from a defined print area in Excel
One focused task, a quick video, and concise steps you can scan immediately.
- Open your Excel workbook
- Select a range of cells that you want to be included in the print area
- Go to Page Layout tab and click Print Area – Set Print Area
- You can also go to Orientation and select Portrait or Landscape orientation
- Also, go to the Sizes – More Paper Sizes options and make sure to select Fit to 1 page in case if you like to fit everything on a single PDF page. If your print area includes more pages, try different options and see how they look from Print Preview
- Once you finished the Print Area setup inside of your Excel workbook – press Save button
- Go to Design of your web-application and upload your Excel workbook with Print Area added
- Go to Excel Events – Create New Excel Export – select Current Spreadsheet Type, select PDF Output Type, select the Worksheet Name from your Excel workbook where the Print Area was added, give a name for this PDF Excel Export and also give a name for the output PDF file and click Create Excel Export button at the bottom
- Go to Layout & Controls, open action button properties and make sure the Excel Export (PDF) is added to the action button Events
- Go to Preview, click the action button – and the PDF file will be downloaded to your device
