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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.
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Yes i signed out, and the blurry is because you are exempting the excel app from the influence of the system scaling, and assuming also the "blurry fix".
One of the reasons we moved to Windows 10 was for monitor scaling, and now we have this awesome problem. #ThanksMicrosoft
Yes... windows is def an awesome problem. Feels like I spend more time fixing what updates break than i spend on what i need to be doing.
I just deleted the custom fonts in cell styles and modified my "normal" font to match my default font in excel options and guess what fixed. I took the advise on custom default settings restarted my computer, then did the above font stuff and looks like its good now. I will post again after I work with it a bit more but Im just courious if you guys try that does that fix ur problem as well
Matt,
First off, I am a normal guy with no canned answers.
I have the same issue and now with colleagues using Windows 7 and Windows 10, it is an absolute nightmare.
We use Excel for our quoting tools and proposal generation and the words and pages are all different to the point that we have to upgrade all users of the tools to new computers with Windows 10.
In Windows 7 we had the same Display scale issues where everyone needed to be on the same scale in order for our print macro to print out a PDF that didn't mess up the pages. The bridge between 7 and 10 made that no better as that scaling option is buried and doesn't have the same functionality.
I do not think the good people at Microsoft (aka Michaelsoft) get it.
They almost need us to fly out to their offices to demo the bug.
Matt,
First off, I am a normal guy with no canned answers.
I have the same issue and now with colleagues using Windows 7 and Windows 10, it is an absolute nightmare.
We use Excel for our quoting tools and proposal generation and the words and pages are all different to the point that we have to upgrade all users of the tools to new computers with Windows 10.
In Windows 7 we had the same Display scale issues where everyone needed to be on the same scale in order for our print macro to print out a PDF that didn't mess up the pages. The bridge between 7 and 10 made that no better as that scaling option is buried and doesn't have the same functionality.
I do not think the good people at Microsoft (aka Michaelsoft) get it.
They almost need us to fly out to their offices to demo the bug.
I've gotten the impression they understand there is unintended behavior here, and are looking into a solution. I will say, DPI scaling in general works a lot better than it did in previous editions of windows. They did a lot of work improving DPI scaling leading up to this problem. My guess is that now they have it implemented at such a low level that it is having unintended consequences.