Why doesn't my Excel worksheet print like it looks on the screen?

[Gulleyball]

My Excel does not print as my screen appears. It DOES print as it appears on
print preview, but print preview isn't how it looks on the main screen. I
want the text in columns to almost be touching the borders/lines, but it's
adding extra white space when it prints. help!

 

[Miguel Zapico]

You can adjust the borders in the menu File->Page Setup->Margins tab, that
will determine the extra white space that Excel adds when it prints.
And yes, you need to go to the Print Preview to check how it will look like
in the printer. There is no "Print layout" option in the view menu, as in
Word.

Hope this helps,
Miguel.

 

[Gulleyball]

It's not the white space as margins that is the problem. I'm talking about
extra white space within the columns. I need to text in each column to almost
be touching the column borders, but it's placing extra white space within
each column. Adjusting the margins doesn't effect this.

 

[Miguel Zapico]

Sorry, I didn't understood the question correctly. I don't know why it is
doing that, and the only thing I can think of is to check the different text
alignments in the alignment tab of the Format cells menu.

Miguel.

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Miguel,

Try a different font in the cells. Check that "Draft quality" isn't checked
(File - Page setup - Sheet).