How to Add Repeat Page Titles in Google Sheets

Welcome to the ultimate guide on how to repeat page titles in Google Sheets! If you want to make your printouts more reader-friendly and professional, this tutorial is for you. We’ll explore the process of adding frozen rows and columns to printouts, ensuring that your page titles are visible on every page. Let’s dive in!

Repeating Page Titles: The Key to Reader-Friendly Printouts

When it comes to printing your data, repeating page titles is crucial. It keeps your printouts organized and makes them easier to read. There are two ways to accomplish this: adding the header row to the top of every printed page or including the first column on the left side of every printed page. It’s essential to note that manually copying and pasting titles onto each page is not recommended as it can affect your data structure, filtering, and formulas in the sheet.

How to Print Page Titles on Every Page in Google Sheets

Unfortunately, Google Sheets doesn’t allow you to select a row or column from the middle of a table and repeat it as the page title on every page. However, there is a workaround using the Freeze rows and columns feature. Let’s explore the steps:

Repeat Page Titles at the Top of Printed Pages

To repeat page titles at the top of every printed page in Google Sheets, follow these simple steps:

1. Remove any frozen rows and columns. You can do this by clicking View > Freeze > No rows and then View > Freeze > No columns.
2. Go to the row that you want to repeat at the top of every printed page. For example, let’s choose row 4.
3. Click View > Freeze > Up to row 4. This will place a shaded bar at the bottom of row 4, freezing the top four rows.
4. Click File > Print to open the print dialog box.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the print dialog box and make sure that “Repeat frozen rows” under “Row & Column headers” is checked. If not, check it.
6. Click Next and then Print.

Now, when you print your Google Sheets data, you’ll see the page titles repeated on each and every page.

Repeat Page Titles at the Left of Printed Pages

If you have horizontally arranged data, you’ll want to repeat page titles in columns on every page. Here’s how:

1. Remove any frozen rows and columns by clicking View > Freeze > No rows/No columns.
2. Go to the column that you want to repeat at the top of every printed page. Let’s say we choose column B.
3. Click View > Freeze > Up to column B. This will place a shaded bar at the right-hand side of column B, freezing the left two columns.
4. Click File > Print.
5. In the print dialog box, make sure that “Repeat frozen columns” is checked. If not, check it.
6. Preview the printout and ensure that the page titles appear as desired.

Conclusion

Now that you know how to repeat page titles in Google Sheets, you can create more professional and reader-friendly printouts. However, it’s important to be aware of a potential drawback. When you repeat print titles on the top of a spreadsheet, any values in the frozen rows will also be repeated on every page. This can be problematic if you don’t want certain data to be repeated. Keep this in mind when using the repeat rows or columns settings in Google Sheets.

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