How To Remove Page Break In Excel

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Page breaks in Excel can definitely be frustrating especially if they fall at unwanted places. This can also lead to the breakout of pages non-intuitively during printout.

If you wish to not face this situation, it is best that you learn about how to remove the page break in Excel.

What is a Page Break in Excel?

A page break is a divider that marks areas where your worksheet will break into separate pages when printed.

There are two types of page breaks:

• Page breaks that are automatically added by Excel (marked as dashed lines)
• Page breaks that are manually added by the user (marked as solid lines)

The automatic page breaks are added based on different settings like scale, margin, and paper size to make sure that you get an optimal number of rows and columns per page.

Manual page breaks are added from the Page Layout->Breaks->Insert Page break menu.

How to Remove Page Break in Excel

Firstly ensure you are in the Page Break Preview, to remove the page break.

Page breaks can be both vertical and horizontal. Vertical page breaks cause column-wise separation, while horizontal page breaks cause row-wise separation. You can delete both these types of page breaks and choose the one you want to keep.

• To remove a vertical page break, select the column to the right of the page break that you want to remove.

• To remove a horizontal page break, select the row that is just below the page break that you want to remove.

• Next, from the Page Layout tab, select Breaks. Select ‘Remove Page Break’ from this list.

• Another way to remove a page break is by dragging it left, past the row headers or up, past the column headers, until it is outside the page break view area.

Returning to Normal View from Page Break Preview

Once you are done with the page breaks preview, this is how you return back to the normal view.  Click on ‘Normal’ from the View tab (under the ‘Workbook Views’ group).

Alternatively, click on the Normal icon from the Excel status bar:

You might still see the page breaks (in grey color this time) once your switch back to the normal view. This is because the page breaks get turned on automatically. 

To remove this, close and reopen your worksheet without saving.

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If you still see the grey dotted lines, then follow the steps below to hide the page breaks:

1. Select the File tab.

2. Click on Options. 

3. Select the ‘Advanced’ category.

4. Scroll down to the category ‘Display options for this worksheet’.

5. Uncheck the box next to ‘Show Page Breaks’.

6. Click OK to close the Excel Options box.

All the grey dotted lines should now disappear from the Normal view of your worksheet.