Sometimes you may not want to print the entire worksheet, but only several areas. You can do it with following steps:

1. Select the area that you will print, and click the Page Layout > Print Area > Set Print Area.

2. This is optional. If you want to add another print area, you need to select this area, and then click the Page Layout > Print Area > Add to Print Area.

3. Click the File (or Office button) > Print to print these print areas.

Notes:

(1) Each print area will be printed in a separate page.

(2) This method can simultaneously print multiple print areas from the same worksheet only.

Normally Microsoft Excel prints the whole active worksheet. But you may want to print the selection in active worksheet only, or print the entire workbook. This way is about printing selection or entire workbook in Excel.

1. Select the range that you will print later, and click the File (or Office button) > Print.

Note: This step is not necessary if you will print entire workbook.

2. Go to the Settings section, click the Print Active Sheets button, and select the Print Selection or Print Entire Workbook from the drop down list. See screenshot:

3. Click the Print button to print the selection or entire workbook immediately.

Notes:

(1) For printing selections, this method can only print one selection from active worksheet at a time.

(2) If you are using Excel 2007, you need to click Office button > Print, and then check Entire Workbook option or Selection option in the popping dialog box. See screenshots:

Print multiple selections (print areas) on one page with Kutools for Excel

Kutools for Excel also provides an Print Current Page utility to quickly print the active page that the active cell is located at with only one click in Excel.

Just click a cell in worksheet, and then click Kutools Plus > Print > Print Current Page.

And then the current page is printed, and at the same time a dialog box will pop out and tell you which page is printed. See screenshot:

Print multiple ranges

Print multiple workbooks