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Why Does My Excel-to-PDF Conversion Cut Off Columns?
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This almost always comes down to Excel's print area and page width settings, not the conversion tool itself.
Common causes
- ·No print area set — Excel guesses which cells to include, and can guess wrong for sheets with scattered data
- ·Portrait orientation on a wide table, pushing the rightmost columns onto a second page
- ·Print scaling left at 100% instead of "Fit to page"
How to fix it
- 1In Excel, select the exact range of cells you want in the PDF and set it as the print area.
- 2Switch to landscape orientation if the table is wider than it is tall.
- 3Use "Fit to 1 page wide" under scaling options.
- 4Re-save and convert again, checking the preview before downloading.
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