Page break preview in Excel 2008

In article <ee888be.0 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>,
Phil_Pankow RemoveThis @officeformac.com wrote:

> Page Break Preview is not available in Excel 2008 for Mac, but you can adjust
> page breaks in Normal view. Here's a help topic on how to do it. <br><br><a
> href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?MODE=ct&CTT=PageView&clr=99-1-0&t
> arget=5f6264e5-25b1-4b85-9915-58b9d815ded91033&srcid=086c05b7-ca01-429a-85d4-b
> fd8dbdfb2851033&ep=8&rtype=2&pos=2&quid=9cb1b136-2289-47c0-a7d1-089712389d04">
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?MODE=ct&CTT=PageView&clr=99-1-0
> &target=5f6264e5-25b1-4b85-9915-58b9d815ded91033&srcid=086c05b7-ca01-4
> 29a-85d4-bfd8dbdfb2851033&ep=8&rtype=2&pos=2&quid=9cb1b136-228
> 9-47c0-a7d1-089712389d04</a> <br><br>-Phil

I was about to chastise you for posting such an ugly message (no need
for html, plain text will do).

Then I saw the site referred to. You're off the hook...
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In article <ee888be.2 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, BobP RemoveThis @officeformac.com
wrote:

> The other thing that's missing is the straightforward "Print Preview"
> function, which was really useful in seeing and adjusting the page prior to
> printing. <br><br>It seems that the development team missed out some useful
> basic functions from XL 2004 when they created XL 2008 - was this deliberate
> or just an omission?

As I understand it, it was deliberate. For all Office apps, the OS
performs the printing functions - the apps call the OS print routines
and send them whatever needs to be printed.

Since Tiger and Leopard have full Preview functions, there's little or
no compelling reason to design and implement an internal Print Preview
that has to mimic system functions, and therefore runs the risk of
differing from the actual printed output if something changes in the
System.

While I liked Print Preview, it makes a certain sense to me.
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Hrm. This technique really isn't comparable to "Page Break Preview", which
dynamically changed the print scaling while I manually dragged the page
breaks to where I wanted them. Using "insert page break" can't achieve that
sort of precision.
Maybe there's a way to reproduce this using Visual Bas --- oops! Guess not!
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On Jan 27, 9:44 am, "alanitech" <u40981@uwe> wrote:
> Hrm. This technique really isn't comparable to "Page Break Preview", which
> dynamically changed the print scaling while I manually dragged the page
> breaks to where I wanted them. Using "insert page break" can't achieve that
> sort of precision.
> Maybe there's a way to reproduce this using Visual Bas --- oops! Guess not!

I would like to add my own disappointment over the removal of the
"Page Break Preview" function.
I used it all the time, and found it much easier than doing everything
manually. The Page Break
feature also helped to ensure that I could maximize my type size by
perfectly scaling the documenentt
based on where I placed the breaks. Will this manual insertion
automatically scale the text (usually
down in size) as I was able to achieve in previous versions with "Page
Break Preview"?
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cannot believe that the "print preview" function was taken out- this is one of the things that MS had a "leg up" on MAC- i use this ALL the time- and although i semi-understand the reason, it BITES!- sorry to let this out here, but i HAD to. no one else i know understands what i am talking about- most people i know are either strict PC users, or MAC.<br>
<br>
guess that the kinks are till being worked on :(
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In article <7efb2a5c29f49@uwe>, "alanitech via MacKB.com" <u40981@uwe>
wrote:

> It's been on the Windows version, too, for as long as I can remember, and in
> Excel 2007. Same menu command: "View...Page Break Preview" as Mac (at least
> when Windows Excel had menus -- now it's on one of the tabs).
>

Print Preview and Page Break Preview are rather different.

Page Break Preview is mostly a reduced magnification view with guides
that allow one to drag page boundaries (and with non-printing
"watermarks" to identify pages.

Print Preview, OTOH, is a full-screen view that shows XL's
representation of how a page or pages will be printed, complete with
headers and footers, and guides that allow one to set column widths and
the page, header, and footer margins.
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In article <ee888be.7 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>,
jmacchs1 RemoveThis @officeformac.com wrote:

> cannot believe that the "print preview" function was taken out- this is one
> of the things that MS had a "leg up" on MAC- i use this ALL the time- and
> although i semi-understand the reason, it BITES!- sorry to let this out here,
> but i HAD to. no one else i know understands what i am talking about- most
> people i know are either strict PC users, or MAC.<br>
> <br>
> guess that the kinks are till being worked on :(

Make sure you also "let this out" to MS - use Help/Send Feedback in XL.
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I guess the work around kind of works.
I still miss page break preview
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I can't believe PAGE BREAK PREVIEW is missing.
This is so outrageous.
There is no way to duplicate this task.

WHY???????????

What can one do???????
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Wow!
I figured it out.
I know how to get back Page Break Preview...

Re-install Excel from Office 2004.
Worked fine for me.

In fact, I kept on Excel for 2008 also.
I don't think the 2008 version is that much better than 2004.

Problem solved.
Nice going Microsoft!
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Unreal...As with others, I am too extremely disappointed that the Page Break Preview function is no longer...I often have to print things for my boss at the last minute because she's meeting with clients, and this completely destroyed any possibility of being able to get her what she needs in time in these situations. It's very annoying to have to flip back & forth between the first page & others because I'm no longer able to print everything on one page in one, easy click & drag.
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In article <ee888be.16.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>,
Nikki <nikole.anderson.TakeThisOut@interactcom.com> wrote:

> Unreal...As with others, I am too extremely disappointed that the Page Break
> Preview function is no longer...I often have to print things for my boss at
> the last minute because she's meeting with clients, and this completely
> destroyed any possibility of being able to get her what she needs in time in
> these situations. It's very annoying to have to flip back & forth between the
> first page & others because I'm no longer able to print everything on one
> page in one, easy click & drag.

Make sure you use Help/Send Feedback to explain what exactly you could
do in Page Break Preview that you can't to in Page Layout View.
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It would be nice if "page layout" worked at all in excel 2008. The whole mechanism is broken, not just the display.

10.5.2; Excel 12.0.1; Intel Core 2 Duo; 3GB; new Epson drivers;
Trashed all ~/library/preferences/com.microsoft.*

Excel won't let me print more than a Single Column per page -- either in portrait or landscape
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