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How to print borders around each page in Excel?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-09-03

If you have a worksheet which has hundreds pages, when you print the worksheet, you would like a page border around each pages to make the document more professional. You can select one page content and apply the border manually in Excel, but this will be painful if there are multiple pages. Here, I can help you to solve this job with some workarounds in Excel.

Print borders around each pages with setting gridlines

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Print borders around each pages with setting gridlines

There is no good ways to deal with this problem, but you can set the gridlines when you print your worksheet. Please do as follows:

1. If there are some borders in your worksheet, you need to remove them first. Please select your worksheet, and then click Home > Border icon > No Border, see screenshot:

click Home > Border icon > No Border

2. Then go to click Page Layout > Page Setup arrow, see screenshot:

click Page Layout > Page Setup arrow

3. In the Page Setup dialog box, click Sheet tab, and then check Gridlines under Print section, see screenshot:

check Gridlines under Print section

4. And then you can preview the result by clicking Print Preview button at the bottom of the dialog, and now when you print the worksheet, a bold border around each pages will be printed with the contents. See screenshot:

 a bold border around each pages will be printed

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Print borders around each pages with one click by Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel, with its Add Border to Each Page, you can add border to every page of the active sheet with one click.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Active the sheet you want to add borders, and then click Enterprise > Printing > Add Border to Each Page. See screenshot:
click Add Border to Each Page feature of kutools

2. A dialog popps out to warn you that all existing borders will be deleted if you conticue to applying Add Border to Each Page. Click Yes to continue. See screenshot:
A dialog popps out to warn you that all existing borders will be deleted

Now you can see each page of the sheet has been added border around.
each page of the sheet has been added border around

Add Border Around Each Page

 

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