Columns in Excel spreadsheet cut off on pdf

What I was trying to point out was that you are likely looking at an Excel issue. I am not saying Acrobat may not be an issue, but in many cases it is an issue of either being sure that the proper printer is selected while you are checking things out (MS Office products and most similar products reflow the document for a best print out). In other cases, Acrobat gets blamed for changing things that are actually a setting in the application, not Acrobat. Look to both sides of the issue to be sure things are working correctly. Since you indicate you are seeing the same thing in Excel, that suggests an Excel issue. In general, if the print preview looks the same as the PDF, the problem is in the applications, not Acrobat. Bill

Hey Bill, thanks so much for the quick reply! But doing what you suggested only resulted in creating a pdf that had the same problem.

But in looking at some other answers, they said to check the print settings to make sure page setup of both the Excel document and Adobe was set for 600 dpi. Then I discovered that the print settings had it adjusting the scaling to 74%, even though I hadn't specified that originally. It printed hard copy too small with that, so I changed it to 100%. Of course then, I had to adjust the columns' widths.

In any case, once I did all that, it fixed the cutting off part of the column problem. However, I noticed another glitch after that - on some rows it would place an extra blank line at the end - both in Excel and on pdf. I made sure I had all rows set to Auto Fit, and still can't figure out why some rows do that and others don't. Aargg - it's always something!

If you have further wisdom, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks a bunch,
Malia

Change the printer to the Adobe PDF printer and then use the print view again. Your print view as probably for your paper printer and when you printed to a PDF, Excel reflowed the document and caused the problem.