# Printing Excel off the Internet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921 "2012-06-03T08:27:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921/1 "2012-06-03T08:27:51Z")

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I tried to print a “roster,” prepared in Microsoft Excel, off my e-mail service (Hotmail). It did not print the lower one-third of the rows or the rightmost few columns, and I have no idea how to get these parts to print (“selecting” or blocking doesn’t work).

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**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921/2 "2012-06-03T08:33:32Z")

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Can you open the file in Excel, or can you only view it within your browser?

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921/3 "2012-06-03T13:52:54Z")

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If the roster is a table pasted into an email, it might be several different things, like a metafile or bmp. If you can’t select individual cells, just the whole chuck that’s been pasted in, it’s probably a picture.

Anyway, I think if I ran into a problem where I can see something on screen but can’t print it from where I’ve got it, I’d probably hit print screen, open MS Paint, paste, copy the just bit I want, paste that into a new image, and print that out. Or, if the pic can be selected, paste that straight into an image or Word doc.

Assuming I understand the question correctly, which I usually don’t.

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-excel-off-the-internet/623921/4 "2012-06-03T17:55:57Z")

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If you are trying to print this after opening the file in Excel, then there is probably a print area set up. Try Page Layout, Print Area, Clear Print Area, then try to print again.