Excel to PDF: Keep Your Formatting

Save-as-PDF often breaks pagination or cuts off forms. A few settings preserve the layout.

1. Print Area

Select the range to export, then Page Layout → Print Area → Set Print Area.

2. Fit to One Page

Page Layout → Scale to Fit, set both width and height to "1 page".

3. Repeat Title Rows

Page Layout → Print Titles → Rows to repeat at top — headers appear on every page.

Common Issues

  • Wide table cut off? Use "Fit 1 page wide" + multiple pages tall
  • Fonts changed? Use embedded or standard fonts

Tools

No Office installed? Use the online Excel-to-PDF tool — runs locally, files never uploaded.