Mircosoft Excel, printing solution

[47redlands]

I have drawn the layout of my room in Excel, so excel cells are different furniture in my room. I use a projector to display the room, on the projector the layout is fine, however when I print it out, the left and right are on the opposite side. Imagine when you ask the question "is it to my left, or your left” I have tried to copy the layout from Excel to word and turn it using the rotation etc. but it does not work. How can I solve this dilemma?

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

That is very strange!

The cells that are on the left on my PC are on the left when I print.

AND the cells that are on the right on my PC are on the right when I print!!!

I can imagine no rational explanation for your printer flipping things around.

You might try reloading your printer driver software.

 

[cmeagan656]

On my Epson NX210 ink jet printer one of the options is "mirror image". See if you have this option and make sure that it is not selected.

Hope this helps.

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[47redlands]

I have setup the room to be projected. If you have a projector you will notice what i am talking about

 

[fredericofonseca]

or maybe the projector is flipping it

both on screen, projector and on printing contents of cell A1 should be on the left side of it (assuming its not on a country/language that writes right to left) - if it isn't whatever is showing on the right side is doing the flip

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Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

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[SkipVought]

Whatever the projector is doing, Excel prints what's on the left, er, uh, um...

On the left!!!

 

[47redlands]

what about if it is projected to show a room layout?

Think really hard about this...

or just get a projector, draw the layout of the room and proof it to yourself!!!

 

[SkipVought]

Don't have a projector.

Select all the cells in the projection.

COPY as a Picture

Paste into a new sheet

Now flip the pic n print

 

[jknichols]

Does your projector have a setting for Rear projection?, but then everything whould be reversed not just the spreadsheet.
As Cmeagan said, some printers have a mirror image mode to print t-shirt transfers, but again, that would affect all printouts, not just the room layout.

 

[Larena]

I use projectors all the time. What's on the left on the projector, PC screen and printed are always the same.
If you display the spreadsheet on a normal PC screen, does it loo the same as the projector or the printout? That will help to work out which one is backwards.