Same Spreadsheet Appears Different On Another Machine

Question

I have created several reports using Excel 2010 that are used by our techs.  There is a lot of data that we need to fit on one page so the margins are fairly tight.  We have four laptops that are using these reports and all of them are running Windows 7 64 with Office 2010.  For several months there have been no issues.  One laptop's harddrive crashed, after reloading system and office, the repaired computer shows the reports on two pages.  There seems to be about 20-30 pixels difference that I have to manually change on these reports so alignment fits to one page again.

What could the reason be for this difference in presentation of the same spreadsheet?  The same fonts are installed on all the machines.

Any ideas what this could be?

Answer 1

To quote from "Excel for Dummies" (XL 20102 edition): Excel 2010's Page Layout view gives you an instant view of how printed Excel pages will look.

Since it shows how the worksheet will print this would strongly suggest a link between print driver and what you see in Page Layout View. best wishes

Answer 2

If it is not printer related, what do you mean by 'two pages' ? best wishes

I typically have the current view set up to page view and it's split to two pages on this one machine, and not on the others. 

I could be wrong but I don't believe printer drivers come into play when Excel is using page view.  Page view is a fairly faithful rendering of what an actual print out would look like.

There doesn't appear to be any way to attach images in this forum otherwise I would post the two different presentations.

Answer 3

If it is not printer related, what do you mean by 'two pages' ? best wishes

Answer 4

Same printer driver for all machines?

-  Mike Middleton

Hello Mike,

I haven't explicitly checked printer drivers but I don't think they come into play here.  The problem manifests upon opening the workbook for editing.

Answer 5

Same printer driver for all machines?

-  Mike Middleton