How do I print text document (spreadsheet) in 11 x 17 format with landscape orientation?

Print preview shows only in portrait orientation when I get an image at all, then when I hit "print" icon, get instant message that says "out of memory".  Also cannot seem to get printer to recognize 11 x 17 size -- keeps saying that printer settings & paper size do not match.

Don't want to come across as ungrateful, but I'm NOT impressed with how these postings are being handled.  Guess I should expect that with HP -- ever since their calculators came out with RPN, the culture of HP has been different from most others.
To repeat myself, my printer is HP B8550 Photosmart, capable of wide format printing -- the reason I purchased this one after reading reviews by others  of all its features.  My OS is Windows XP Home Edition.  My problem is with trying to print out a spreadsheet format of a large genealogical database that I have created, using Windows Works.  When I open the file, create the desired printer settings, and perform the page set-up tasks, all I get when I hit "print preview" is an error message that says "out of memory", which prevents any further action.  When I clear that from the screen & try to see a print preview, I get a truncated image of the spreadsheet in PORTRAIT orientation & not the LANDSCAPE orientation that I have set the document printing for.
While awaiting a useful response from yesterday's forum (& not getting one), I tried a different Word document while using the same 11 x 17 sheet size setting for the printer, & that document was processed without a hiccup.  I'm now more inclined to believe that there is something wrong with my Window Works software & NOT the printer software that just doesn't want to deal with 11 x 17 spreadsheets in queue or out on the stack (or heap -- wherever the machine stages such data for processing), but I just don't know.  Made a separate file using just one page of the database, thinking that maybe the 4.5 MB file size was the problem, but that had absolutely no effect on the situation -- it won't print even that small file as structured.  To display all the data, I need to use landscape orientation.  Puzzled why it won't show in that orientation even within print preview.
ANY advice on how to get this project to work properly is appreciated -- it represents about 8 years' worth of work in creating it & I'm ready to make a hard copy to use while doing on-site work at various archives holding such records.

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