To print the current document, choose the ribbon command File | Print 
.
The program will display a dialog box in which the following settings can be made:
Printer
Here, select which of the installed printers should print the printout.
The Setup button opens a window for setting up and configuring the printer. For more information, see your printer manual.
Linux users can also specify here the command to be used to initiate the printing process.
MacOS and iOS users select the printer including its setup via the Print button.
Here, you can choose which parts of the document to print:
▪Whole document
| Print the entire document (all worksheets). |
▪Only selected cells
| Print only those cells that are currently selected in the current worksheet. |
▪Current worksheet
| Print only the current worksheet. |
▪Only selected worksheets
| Print only those worksheets that are currently selected in the worksheet register. |
▪Only the following worksheets
| Print only the selected worksheets. To select them, use the list below this option. Click to set a check mark in front of each worksheet that you want to print. |
Ignore print range
If you enable this option, PlanMaker will ignore all print ranges defined in the document when printing.
Background information: You can define a print range for each worksheet in a document if required. When a print range is defined, only those cells that are within this cell range will appear in printouts. The rest of the sheet will be omitted.
You can temporarily disable this feature at any time by enabling this option.
For more information on print ranges, see Setting page format options.
Pages
Specify here the pages of the document to be printed:
▪All: Print all pages of the document.
▪Pages: Print only the specified pages. To do so, enter the desired page numbers.
| Some examples: |
12 |
Print page 12 only |
12-15 |
Print pages 12 to 15 |
12- |
Print page 12 and all of the following pages |
-12 |
Print pages 1 to 12 |
| You can also enter more than one such page number by separating them with commas: |
2-5, 12 |
Print pages 2 to 5 and page 12 |
etc. |
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▪You can also use the option Pages to print to specify whether all selected pages or only the pages with a even or odd page number should be printed.
▪For Pages per sheet, you can specify how many pages to print on a sheet of paper. PlanMaker usually prints only one page per sheet. However, you can instruct the program to output four pages (scaled down accordingly) per sheet at a time.
Options
This section of the dialog box contains additional printing options:
▪Copies
| Here, you can specify the number of copies of the document to be printed. |
▪Collate copies
| This option specifies whether to sort the print output by page number when printing multiple copies of a document. |
| If you enable this option and print multiple copies of a document with, for example, three pages, the pages will be output in the following order: 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, and so on. |
| If it is not enabled, the order will be: 1-1-1..., 2-2-2..., 3-3-3... |
| Note: Some printers do not support this function. |
▪Print to file
| This option redirects the print output to a file instead of a physical printer. |
▪Drop pictures
| This option skips all pictures and drawings when printing (useful for fast test printouts). |
▪Reverse order
| This option prints the pages from last to first. |
▪Double-sided printing (Windows and Linux only)
| Instead of Single-sided printing only on the front of a page, you can set here for printing to also be performed on the back of a page ("duplex printing"): |
| Double sided, long edge means that you can turn the pages like a book. |
| Double sided, short edge means that you scroll the pages upwards like a clipboard. |
| Note: Your printer must support duplex printing in order to be able to use this feature. |
To start printing, click on OK.
Before actually printing a document, you can preview the printout via the command File | Print preview. This feature enables you to avoid wasting paper on test prints.
Tip: Print comments applied to cells
If the comments applied to table cells via the ribbon command Insert | Comment are to appear in the printout, perform the following two steps before printing:
▪Open the dialog box "Page setup" by choosing the ribbon command File | group Print | Page setup. Switch to the Options tab and enable "Print: Comments" there (see also Setting page format options).
| Note: This option can be set separately for each worksheet. |
▪It is also necessary for you to permanently show the comments inserted in PlanMaker. To do so, use the Comment visibility button on the ribbon tab Review | group Comments. This allows you to permanently show all comments or single comments in your PlanMaker document (see also Using comments).
| Only these displayed comments of a worksheet will be taken into account during PDF export. |