{"id":4979,"date":"2020-01-27T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:33:05","slug":"remove-page-breaks-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/remove-page-breaks-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Page Breaks in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When your spreadsheet is formatted to print the automatic\npage break lines are created. They are represented by dotted horizontal and\nvertical lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/automatic-dotted-lines.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/automatic-dotted-lines.png 385w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/automatic-dotted-lines-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also have manual <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/page-break\/\">page breaks<\/a> represented by solid horizontal and vertical lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/manual-page-breaks.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/manual-page-breaks.png 385w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/manual-page-breaks-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You have them, but you want to get rid of them. In this\nlesson, I&#8217;ll show you what you can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remove manual page breaks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to remove page breaks that were inserted\nmanually, click a cell next to the horizontal or vertical break and navigate to\n<strong>Page Layout &gt;&gt; Page Setup &gt;&gt;\nBreaks &gt;&gt; Remove Page Break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/remove-page-break.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4982\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The manual lines next to the active cell were removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to get rid of all manual page breaks, click <strong>Reset All Page Breaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remove automatic page breaks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After removing manual page breaks, you still have the dotted\nlines automatically created by Excel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To remove them, navigate to <strong>File &gt;&gt; Options &gt;&gt; Advanced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the right side of the window, search for the <strong>Display option for this worksheet<\/strong>.\nThere is a checkbox called <strong>Show page\nbreaks<\/strong>. Uncheck it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/show-page-breaks.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/show-page-breaks.png 596w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/show-page-breaks-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After you click <strong>OK<\/strong>,\nthe break lines are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remove automatic and manual page breaks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can remove both manual and automatic page breaks very\nquickly using the <strong>Immediate Window<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To open it, first, you need to open VBA (<strong>Left Alt + F11<\/strong>). Now, use <strong>Ctrl + B<\/strong> to open the immediate window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After you do it, enter this code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>ActiveSheet.DisplayPageBreaks = False<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what it looks like inside the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/immediate-window-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/immediate-window-1.png 429w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/immediate-window-1-300x86.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Press <strong>Enter<\/strong> to\nexecute it. This will remove all types of <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/break-long-string-to-multiple-lines-in-vba\/\">break lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your spreadsheet is formatted to print the automatic page break lines are created. They are represented by dotted horizontal and vertical lines&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[190],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remove Page Breaks in Excel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to remove both automatic and manual page breaks in Excel. 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