Excel document now has blank page in Office 2003

[DKDiveDude]

The company I work for was FORCED to upgrade to Office 2003, because Office 2000 will not work with the new Microsoft Exchange Server. I am 100% sure Micro$oft could have programmed this new Exchange Server so it would work with Office 2000, or put out a patch for Office 2000. I really, really, really hate Micro$soft!

Anyways I had a document with 0.5" margin on all sides, and text on the sheet to those limits. This page loads fine and "Print previews" and Prints on one(1) page in Excel 2000.

Now in Excel 2003, the EXACT same document "Print previews" and Prints on two(2) pages, the last page being blank.

After the Print or Print Preview, the "page border" dotted lines are at the same place as when opened and print previewed in Excel 2000. And when hitting "Ctrl+End" the cursor goes down to the last column and row where I have information, which is clearly within the dotted lines and within the first page. But still Excel 2003 prints two pages, one being a blank page. Why?

Has anyone else experienced this strange problem, after they upgraded to Office 2003?

Thanks

 

[01Patrik]

Cannot say why; and I haven't experienced it myself; but you should be able to avoid it by setting "Fit to" 1 page tall by 1 page wide, in "page setup".


// Patrik

 

[DKDiveDude]

Yes I tried that, plus tweaking the margins manually and it works.

BUT now I have a rather large right white space margin in my document.

Maybe it helps if I say that my right most column contains several combo drop-down boxes, and I suspect that it is here that Micro$oft is screwing up, but not being able to properly detect the width of those combo boxes. That is they look and print fine, but Excel 2003 think they are wider than they actually is.