Calling the powers of the Doc Google collective

April 12, 2013 9:40 PM

Here a doc there a doc, everywhere a doc doc but how do I define a frimping printable area on a Google Doc spreadsheet? & page breaks. So tired of selecting content & printing one page at a time.
posted by tilde to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

there are 3 ways to print (yes, ugh) but only 2 of them work the way you want. Google Docs inside the browser are a Russian Nesting Doll.

When you use the print icon within the spreadsheet UI instead of the browser UI or the Operating System UI, you will get the Google Doc print properties.

Same results if you use the Google Doc File Print menu (not the browser, not the OS)

The pop up window should give you the print properties offered by Google Docs.

I am using Chrome on a Mac... but it works the same on a PC
posted by bobdow at 10:00 PM on April 12, 2013

Response by poster: Yes but that doesn't stick. Always resets.
posted by tilde at 10:40 PM on April 12, 2013

About the only way we've found is to insert blank rows or columns where needed to get the page formatting you want. This also sometimes requires formatting cell sizes. Not ideal and tends to work better on documents that you're not adding extra rows/columns to, but it works.
posted by jmd82 at 7:34 AM on April 13, 2013

Response by poster: Blerg!
posted by tilde at 8:19 PM on April 14, 2013