Excel printing and display scaling bug

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your feedback. I haven't get the update, I'll also share this information to the related resources.

Best Regards,

Jim

It's been 14 months since I reported this issue.  Can we get an update?

We had everyone on Windows 7 and had to pull everyone down to Medium scaling to make sure we replicated everything to a T.  Now with Windows 10, the scaling is not exactly the same which makes this an oh so fun project that I am not looking forward to.

Have the same issue in Win 10 Pro Excel 2016. Setting scaling to 100% has not fixed unfortunately.

I feel your pain.

Excel wasn't made for lots of things and I wish they would make an Excel / Word / Adobe tie in type program.

Until my company wants to move this to a web based program... STUCK. :)

Windows 7 Pro

Office 365 x64 ver 1709 (Build 8431.2236 click-torun)

When printing with Excel, the page layout is being affected by display scaling.  I had it set at 125%.  A spreadsheet that normally prints to 6 pages is trying to print to 9 or 10 pages.  Adjusting the page size in "page break view" does not fix the problem.  This is with the setting, "fit all columns on one page".  If you simply reduce the *print* scaling (by a percentage, instead) until it print on only 6 pages, the sheet appears more narrow than it normally does.

If you simply set the display scaling back to 100%, it fixes the problem.  Display scaling should only change what I see, not how it prints.

Furthermore, checking the box under excel shortcut:  "disable display scaling on high dpi settings" does NOT disable the display scaling for excel like it should.  I had to completely shut it off under display settings to resolve the problem.

Edit:  Added *print* to the scaling option I was referring to.   Please note display scaling setting is in windows and print scaling is in excel.

I tried scaling it did nothing in my case.

When I am at work, plugged into my laptops docking station, no problem, scaled correctly.

Anywhere else? Hells to the no.  Infuriating as I produce price lists for our reps and it is nigh impossible at home, unless i want to give them the microsoft patented half page squint-o-rama.

Honestly how you manage this bug is beyond me.  If the pages are already set up to print a certain way, how the hell do you manage to screw that up by SCREEN SIZE?!  The two should not even relate to each other.  Amazing.