Printed Page Layout

[Vince B <wa...@verizon.net>]

Using Windows 10-64 on a desktop DELL; and AOO413m1(Build:9783) -  Rev. 1761381
2016-09-29 02:39:19

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I have an AOO-Calc sheet set for landscape orientation. I have set the row height for Optimum Row Height since several cells have multiple lines of text data. The first seven rows are repeated at top of each printed page.

Am having difficulty getting the height of each page to be equal, after moving the Blue page break line up/down while in View | Page Break Preview mode. Is there a method to configure each page to be a specified, consistent, and equal height, i.e., equal number of rows? Is there a feature for setting page height to Optimum Page Height?

I would also like to have, e.g., five or ten, empty rows appear at the bottom of each printed page, so that I may manually hand write in new data to that particular printed page for later incorporation/revision to the sheet.  Would I use the repeat rows feature in this case? If so, when using Format | Print Range | Edit, can multiple ranges of rows-to-be-repeated be implemented: how? Or, is a Footer, containing five or ten empty rows, required here?

Regards,

VinceB,

Re: Printed Page Layout

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 12:58 29/05/2017 -0400, Vince Bonly wrote:
>I have an AOO-Calc sheet set for landscape orientation. I have set 
>the row height for Optimum Row Height since several cells have 
>multiple lines of text data. The first seven rows are repeated at 
>top of each printed page. Am having difficulty getting the height of 
>each page to be equal, after moving the Blue page break line up/down 
>while in View | Page Break Preview mode.

I don't see what difficulty you can be having. You can move page 
breaks up to reduce what is on each page, of course. If you move 
breaks down, so as to overload any page, it seems that what you are 
squeezing in is automatically scaled to fit. You can see this at 
Format | Page... | Sheet | Scale | Scaling mode | Scaling factor. If 
you set the scaling factor back to 100% there, you force your 
overloaded page to become two again, of course - but retain another 
break where you put it.

>Is there a method to configure each page to be a specified, 
>consistent, and equal height, i.e. equal number of rows?

There cannot be - as those are two conflicting requirements. You 
imply that your row heights vary, so the same number of rows would in 
general be different page heights.

>Is there a feature for setting page height to Optimum Page Height?

Surely that's what you get by default - before you start tinkering in 
Page Break Preview? Otherwise, isn't it all down to careful experimentation?

>I would also like to have, e.g., five or ten, empty rows appear at 
>the bottom of each printed page, so that I may manually hand write 
>in new data to that particular printed page for later 
>incorporation/revision to the sheet.

You'll need to add these empty rows to your spreadsheet explicitly, I 
think. It's fiddly but easy to do. You can see in Page Preview 
exactly where your extra rows should come and you can add them easily 
using Insert | Rows. Depending on your design of the spreadsheet, you 
may need to modify some formulae if they are still to work 
appropriately for you. You may well wish to use a copy of your 
document in which to add these rows, so that you can return to the 
unchanged version for future editing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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