minimizing space between cell content for printing

Hi,
Files printed from Excel 97 in Win98 allowed consequtive single line
cells to overlap and the letters to touch which economized on space for

volume printings.
Printing on the same HP printer from Excel 2003 in Win XP looses half
of the height of the letters.
If it was a printer driver bug, I would like to figure out if I can
force the same style of printing - minimizing space between rows to
zero so the letters touch. (For example, a "b" would touch a "g" on the
line above.)
TIA.

You can adjust the row height - highlight the rows in question and
Format | Row | Height and then type in a suitable value. If you are
using Arial 10pt (default), then the default height is 12.75, so you
can reduce this to 10.

Alternatively, having highlighted the rows, you can just drag the line
between two row identifiers to narrow the row (and all the others
highlighted).

Hope this helps.

Pete

marina wrote:
> Hi,
> Files printed from Excel 97 in Win98 allowed consequtive single line
> cells to overlap and the letters to touch which economized on space for
>
> volume printings.
> Printing on the same HP printer from Excel 2003 in Win XP looses half
> of the height of the letters.
> If it was a printer driver bug, I would like to figure out if I can
> force the same style of printing - minimizing space between rows to
> zero so the letters touch. (For example, a "b" would touch a "g" on the
> line above.)
> TIA.

Thank you for your reply, but what I need to do is minimize the space
between the text in the cell and the cell border. Height adjustment
always leaves extra space.


Pete_UK wrote:
> You can adjust the row height - highlight the rows in question and
> Format | Row | Height and then type in a suitable value. If you are
> using Arial 10pt (default), then the default height is 12.75, so you
> can reduce this to 10.
>
> Alternatively, having highlighted the rows, you can just drag the line
> between two row identifiers to narrow the row (and all the others
> highlighted).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Pete
>
> marina wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Files printed from Excel 97 in Win98 allowed consequtive single line
> > cells to overlap and the letters to touch which economized on space for
> >
> > volume printings.
> > Printing on the same HP printer from Excel 2003 in Win XP looses half
> > of the height of the letters.
> > If it was a printer driver bug, I would like to figure out if I can
> > force the same style of printing - minimizing space between rows to
> > zero so the letters touch. (For example, a "b" would touch a "g" on the
> > line above.)
> > TIA.