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14. Protection, Sharing and Printing

14.7 Print Titles (Repeat Header Rows)

Steps in Excel

  1. Page Layout › Page Setup › Print Titles.
  2. Rows to repeat at top: click the box, then select row 1 (the header row) → $1:$1.
  3. Columns to repeat at left (for very wide sheets): for example $A:$A so Order ID appears on every page.
  4. OK › check pages 2, 3… in Print Preview.

Worked example. The 14,000-row Orders list prints on many pages. With $1:$1 as rows to repeat, every page starts with Order ID | Order Date | Platform | City | …, so page 37 is still readable.

Ravindra Bagale's Tip

Many students copy-paste the header row after every 40 rows so that the header shows on each printed page – and the data gets spoiled (sort/filter go wrong). Never do this. In Page Layout › Print Titles, enter $1:$1 – Excel prints the header on every page automatically.

Practice task

Set row 1 as the print title of your Orders sheet and column A as the left print title. Confirm in Print Preview that page 3 shows both.