How to Save Excel as PDF Landscape (with Quick Steps)

Step 1 – Customizing Page Setup

• Click on the Page Layout tab.

• In the Page Setup group, click on the down-arrow of the Margins button.
• Select Normal.

Normal is set as the default margin.

Now let’s change the orientation, the most important part of the process.

• In the Page Setup group, click on the down-arrow of the Orientation button.
• Select Landscape mode.

Our sheet now looks like this:

The dotted line on the right side indicates where the edge of the page will be in a PDF file.

Now, let’s set the paper size.

• Click the Size button.
• Select A4 as the paper size from the drop-down.

The dotted line changes according to the selected paper size. In our example, it has extended.

Step 2 – Defining the Print Area

In this step, we define the Print Area, Page breaks, and Page scaling respectively.

• Select the range to be printed in the worksheet.
• Select Print Area from the Page Setup group.
• Click Set Print Area.

• To add Page breaks, click on the Breaks button.
• Select Insert Page Break from the list.

Page breaks will now be inserted when saving this file in PDF format.

• To set up the Page scaling, in the Scale to Fit group, keep Width, Height, and Scale in their default modes.

Step 3 – Setting Up Sheet Options for Landscape Orientation

Let’s set up our individual sheets before saving them in PDF.

• Click on Print Titles from the Page Setup group.

• The Page Setup window appears.
• Click the Sheet tab.

Here we can modify the Print area, Titles, Order and other sheet settings.

• Click on the Print area box.
• Select the range on the sheet to be printed.

• Press OK.

The selected area is marked for printing.

Step 4 – Saving in PDF Format

The Excel file is set up for landscape format. Let’s save it as a PDF.

• Click on the File tab of the worksheet.
• Select Save a Copy from the list.

• Browse to the location of the file in the File Manager and select it.
• Select PDF as the Save as type.
• Click Save.

Our Excel file will be successfully saved as PDF in landscape mode.

Related Articles

• How to Change Page Orientation in Excel
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• How to Adjust Page Size for Printing in Excel
• How to Save Excel as PDF Fit to Page
• How to Make Excel Look Like a Page

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