As per the description, you are converting a single excel page into a pdf but it results into 9 pdf pages as well as the fonts are bigger in the resultant pdf, is that correct?
If using Acrobat to convert Excel to PDF, try changing the following setting and see if that works:
1- Launch Acrobat>click Edit>Preferences>Convert to PDF
2- Click Microsoft Office Excel>click Edit Settings
3- Check the box next to "Convert entire Excel workbook"
4- Click OK and try again.
Also, try converting another excel file into pdf and see if this behavior continues.
Are you converting excel into pdf using Adobe Acrobat's Create PDF option or using File>"Save As" or "Save as Adobe PDF" option in Excel?
I am having the same issue. I am opening up an excisting pdf file using Acrobat Pro DC and adding an excel file by dragging file into the pdf thumbnail section. It totally changes layout of the excel file from landscape to portrait. If I do this using my older computer that has an older version of excel it does not change the layout, but if I use my new computer that has a the newest version of excel it changes the layout....so thinking int might be an excel/microsoft issue? Maybe a setting in excel? Both computers have the same version of Acrobat Pro DC. Really need to get this figured out as I use this function a lot for work!!!
I'm having the same issue and tried the trouble shoot you suggest. However when I go into settings in Adobe Acrobat and click on Microsoft Excel files, in the window on the right it says, "There are no settings that can be edited in Microsoft Excel Files." And the "Edit" box is deactivated. I'm signed in and everything. I'm very frustrated!
From Excel, go to File> Save as> PDF> Workbook. If this is cropping the Excel sheet into multiple PDF pages, select all cells on the first sheet and go to File> Print area> Set print area, this should give you a PDF of the entire sheet. (I use a Mac).
Hi Luke, I had already done that. I had set the print area so that it was only one page. I had dragged all my page breaks out to capture everything into a one-page document. I was clearly stretching the limits of the page breaks to get it on one page but I did it. It seems manually setting page breaks and "Set Print Area" is still going to be over-ridden with Adobe PDF wanting to capture it differently. As soon as I "Save as PDF", all the page breaks are back.
I tried everything I could think of. The only way I was able to get it all on one page was to change my background color to white in Excel so grid lines wouldn't show up, and then do selected screen captures, and then paste them into a Word document. That's clearly not a solution, it was merely an end-around. This is clearly a glitch with Adobe. Adobe needs to make manual page breaks and set print area as a priority when converting to PDF.
If you go to file>print, you can save as a pdf instead of printing the doc. This will give you a pdf of everything inside your page breaks. I was having this issue and this is the only viable workaround I came up with.
With previous versions of excel it was super easy to just save your spreadsheet as a pdf, but it seems with newer versions the save as pdf feature is reverting page breaks causing the pdf to cut content that shouldbe viewable.
Thanks! This was the last thing I tried, including changing page orientation and page (paper) size in Excel, and it worked like a charm. Problem solved!
Thank you DustyPaws! Very frustrating until I found your post. Thanks for resurrecting the old thread otherwise might still searching for the solution.
Although the respons is appreciated and this does work, its an extra step that shouldn't exist. When you do 100 of these a day its ridiculous. Also what about multiple pages, its even more steps.
Adobe is the problem. Spending time so your excel file fits and then have Adobe muck it up is frustrating.
Thanks for your suggestion. It worked perfectly on all sheets apart from those with multiple pages. Those (excel) pages have all been squeezed onto one (PDF) page, like a long line of my excel pages down the centre on one PDF page. Any idead?
If you're using Windows, in EXCEL go to VIEW -> Page Break Preview. What you're viewing is the full screen for working on the screen hence all the page breaks are not shown.
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