Setting Print Options

Microsoft Excel’s page setup settings provide several print options (also referred to as sheet options) that allow users to control how worksheet pages are printed.

Setting Print Options

These print options allow users to:

• Select a specific print area on a worksheet.
• Print titles.
• Print gridlines.
• Print row/column headings.
• Achieve draft quality.
• Print comments.
• Print cell errors.
• Define page ordering.

Aspose.Cells supports all the print options offered by Microsoft Excel, and developers can easily configure these options for worksheets using the properties offered by the PageSetup class. How these properties are used is discussed below in more detail.

Set Print Area

By default, the print area incorporates all areas of the worksheet that contain data. Developers can establish a specific print area for the worksheet.

To select a specific print area, use the PageSetup class’s PrintArea property. Assign a cell range that defines the print area to this property.

Set Print Titles

Aspose.Cells allows you to designate row and column headers to repeat on all pages of a printed worksheet. To do so, use the PageSetup class’s PrintTitleColumns and PrintTitleRows properties.

The rows or columns that will be repeated are defined by passing their row or column numbers. For example, rows are defined as $1:$2 and columns are defined as $A:$B.

Set Other Print Options

The PageSetup class also provides several other properties to set general print options as follows:

• PrintGridlines: a Boolean property that defines whether to print gridlines or not.
• PrintHeadings: a Boolean property that defines whether to print row and column headings or not.
• BlackAndWhite: a Boolean property that defines whether to print the worksheet in black‑and‑white mode or not.
• PrintComments: defines whether to display the print comments on the worksheet or at the end of the worksheet.
• PrintDraft: a Boolean property that defines whether to print the sheet without graphics.
• PrintErrors: defines whether to print cell errors as displayed, blank, dash, or N/A.

To set the PrintComments and PrintErrors properties, Aspose.Cells also provides two enumerations, PrintCommentsType and PrintErrorsType, that contain predefined values to be assigned to these properties respectively.

The predefined values in the PrintCommentsType enumeration are listed below with their descriptions.

Print Comments Types	Description
PrintInPlace	Specifies to print comments as displayed on the worksheet.
PrintNoComments	Specifies not to print comments.
PrintSheetEnd	Specifies to print comments at the end of the worksheet.

The predefined values of the PrintErrorsType enumeration are listed below with their descriptions.

Print Errors Types	Description
PrintErrorsBlank	Specifies not to print errors.
PrintErrorsDash	Specifies to print errors as “–”.
PrintErrorsDisplayed	Specifies to print errors as displayed.
PrintErrorsNA	Specifies to print errors as “#N/A”.

Set Page Order

The PageSetup class provides the Order property that is used to order multiple pages of your worksheet for printing. There are two possibilities for ordering the pages, as follows:

• Down then over: prints all the pages down before printing any pages to the right.
• Over then down: prints pages left to right before printing the pages below.

Aspose.Cells provides an enumeration, PrintOrderType, that contains all predefined order types.

The predefined values of the PrintOrderType enumeration are listed below.

Print Order Types	Description
DownThenOver	Represents printing order as down then over.
OverThenDown	Represents printing order as over then down.