Printing entire workbooks in Excel on Macs

We just purchased Acrobat 7 for our office thinking that it finally had the ability to print all the worksheets in an excel workbook. Unfortunately it seems this feature is not supported by 7 :-(

I just "acquired" a copy of Excel 2004 to replace the Test Drive version I have been using for several months. [And, yes, you can trick it into giving you another 30 days.] The Test Drive's main 'Crippling' is that it won't print, so I was using a work around (described below). Now that I had an un-crippled install I was looking forward to printing to PDF a full workbook of a mere 3 sheets and encountered the same "Prints all sheets over each other leaving only the last" problem as y'all have been having. I though, "Surely not even Micro$oft could put out a piece of software that has such a STUPID bug!" But after seeing this problem noted in other boards as well, I learned that I need to lower my expectation of M$ even further, if that is possible. The work around I have been using (and looks like I'll continue to use) is to open the file in NeoOffice <www.neooffice.org> which is itself an 'Aquified' version of OpenOffice. Once open, you can print the file and use the PDF button in the print dialog, or better yet, I use the built-in 'Export as PDF...' and it will not only save all the sheets to PDF but will make an index to the start of each sheet. Now you are asking why I'm not using NeoOffice instead of Excel. I is because the spreadsheet I'm using was developed on Excel and has a bunch if VB in it that the NeoOffice developers are working on, but it doesn't yet supports. Again, there is no problem from Micro$oft that Open Source Software can't fix. Hope this helps.

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