XL: Borders Are Cropped When Printed on HP LaserJet

ID: Q178943

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you print to a Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet printer in Microsoft Excel, the borders may be partially or completely cropped in the printed output.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

The worksheet you want to print contains cells with text that is formatted at an angle.
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You insert a page break next to cells with the angled text.
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You print to a HP LaserJet printer.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The HP LaserJet is manufactured by Hewlett-Packard (HP), a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q177512
   TITLE     : OFF: How to Select a Compatible Printer Driver

REFERENCES

For more information about troubleshooting printing in Microsoft Excel, click Contents and Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, and type the following text

   printing, troubleshooting

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Troubleshoot printing" topic.

Additional query words: XL97 cutoff cut off truncated fail to print

Keywords          : kbprint xlprint 
Version           : WINDOWS:97; MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999