One of the features that I like about MS Excel is the ability to take all or 
part of a spreadsheet and make it print on one or more pages. I thought of an 
enhancement to this functionality. I would very much like to be able to define a 
printer template for a given spreadsheet file (this might be an external file 
for .xls spreadsheets.) When defining a template, one could select portions of a 
spreadsheet and essentially turn the sheet into a pachwork of rectangles which 
could then be selected (or not) and each selected rectangle would be printed on 
a page (or multiple pages). There should be an automatic orientation feature 
that would rotate and expend the spreadsheet sections to maximize their size on 
the printed page. It should be possible to override the auto-rotate and expand 
feature and even put two separate rectangles onto a single page. Each printable 
rectangle could be numbered within the template, and groups of rectangles could 
be sent to separate printers and paper trays (some to 8.5 x 11", some to 14" 
etc.) Once setup, the template could be saved and easily reloaded for further 
work.

Of course it's easy to dream big (especially if I'm not trying to code all of 
this) but I think it would make spreadsheet printing far friendlier than what is 
offered by MS Excel and force Microsoft to have to try to catch up with Open 
Office.

I hope these ideas are useful, and Thank You for considering them.

-Preston  |8-)

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