Clearing the Print Area in MS Excel
You have learned in the past how to set a print area within a worksheet. This area is used to define exactly what range you want to print.
Sometime later, you may want to delete this print area. To clear up any confusion, I am talking about getting rid of the special area designation, not the information contained within that area.
Follow the steps below to clear the print area:
- Select Print Area from the File menu. Excel displays a submenu.
- Select Clear Print Area from the submenu.
If you are using Excel 2007, you clear the print area following the steps below:
- Display the Page Setup tab of the Ribbon.
- In the Page Setup group, click Print Area. Excel displays a menu containing two choices.
- Select Clear Print Area from the menu.
There are other ways to clear the print area, too.
The steps below work in versions of Excel prior to Excel 2007:
- Select Name from the Insert menu. Excel displays a submenu.
- Select Define from the submenu. Excel displays the Define Name dialog box.
- Look in the list of defined names for one called Print_Area. This is the definition of your print area. If you do not see an entry by this name, there is no print area defined in your workbook.
- Select the Print_Area entry and click on Delete.
- The entry is removed, and your print area is now deleted.
- Click on Close to dismiss the dialog box.
If you are using Excel 2007, then you can accomplish the same thing following the steps below:
- Be sure the Formulas tab of the Ribbon is displayed.
- In the Defined Names group, click Name Manager. Excel displays the Name Manager.
- Look in the list of defined names for one called Print_Area. This is the definition of your print area. As above, if you do no see an entry by this name, there is no print area defined in your workbook.
- Select the Print_Area entry and click on Delete.The entry is removed, and your print area is now deleted.
- Click on Close to close the Name Manager.
Now you know several ways to accomplish the same task!
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