I encountered a strange problem with Excel 2007. First, I used Page Set up and chose “Fit 1 page wide by 1 wide, then used to Print Preview to preview the document. The preview showed the document is 4 pages long. I was surprised and switched the view to Page Break View. I tried to move the blue page break line so the document would fit into one page. Another surprise! Now, the page break was everywhere. In fact, each cell had a page break, so it would print only one cell on a page.

I tried lots of things to fix this for the next 30 minutes or so. I searched the internet and found out this was a rather common bug in Excel 2007. For example, this thread at xtremepccentral.com initially indicates it can be a bug related to margin sizes. Then, a poster points to this solution, which involves deleting excel.exe. Well, I didn’t want to follow this advice because the PC I was using was company’s. I didn’t want to upset our IT people. So, I tried a lot more things, and somehow I could solve the problem. I did so many things other than un/reinstall Excel, so I don’t know what fixed the problem. I’m sure I’ll encounter this problem again. I’ll make sure to note the fix next time around.