[FIX] Print Titles Must Be Contiguous And Complete Rows Or Columns

If you can't print your workbook in Microsoft Excel 2016/2013 due to "Print titles must be contiguous and complete rows or columns" warning, fix it here.

Kapil Arya
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Today in this article we’re addressing a strange problem that occurs while you print an Microsoft Excel sheet. This is related to print titles for your worksheets and became massive issue while you’re printing a large number of sheets.

In this scenario, whenever you try to print or want to see print preview for any Excel sheet, you get this warning message:

FIX - Print Titles Must Be Contiguous And Complete Rows Or Columns Microsoft Excel 2013

The reason behind this warning may be incomplete rows or columns in your document. If you’re getting this message with single worksheet, you can bypass it by clearing out Print Titles (navigate to PAGE SETUP > Print Titles). But if you have lots of worksheets, it is not feasible to clear out print titles for each sheets manually. Hence, for such cases, you can try this easiest solution and resolve the problem for yourself.

FIX : Print Titles Must Be Contiguous And Complete Rows Or Columns Warning In Microsoft Excel

1. Open your worksheet in Microsoft Excel.

2. Now click on PAGE LAYOUT tab. Then click Print Titles icon there.

FIX - Print Titles Must Be Contiguous And Complete Rows Or Columns Microsoft Excel 2013

3. Next, in the Page Setup window shown below, switch to Sheet tab first. Then under Print heading, click the drop down against Cell error as and select <blank>. Click OK to close Page Setup window.

FIX - Print Titles Must Be Contiguous And Complete Rows Or Columns Microsoft Excel 2013

Finally, restart Microsoft Excel and open the worksheet with which you were having the issue. You’ll find that now you can print or see print preview without getting any warning.

That’s it!

Also see: How to repair Office offline?

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Kapil Arya
11x Microsoft MVP · Admin

Kapil holds Microsoft MVP title in Windows IT Pro expertise, 11-times in a row (2014-2025). He is 8-times Windows Insider MVP as well, and author of 'Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting' book. In 2015, Microsoft India accomplished him as 'Windows 10 Champion'. Being passionate Windows blogger, he loves to help others on fixing their system issues. Kapil has worked with official Microsoft Community Engagement Team (CET) on several community projects. You can subscribe him for news/updates and fixes for Windows.

26 Comments
Kanwar Saad

Very very helpful Thank You.!!!

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Thanks for your feedback 😊

B N Mani

Thanks for your information

Kapil Arya Author

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Aman Thakur

Thanks For You.

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^^ Welcome Aman!

Viktoria

It still did not work :(

manoj verma

Thanks for giving idea for solve problem

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Cool 😎

loganthan

thanks sir…..

Kapil Arya Author

^^ You’re most welcome, loganthan!

Inian

Thanks Sir…. it’s working

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Awesome 😎

Ravindra Chavan

Thank you very much dear sir………….

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Glad it helped 😎

nishit

supr…

M Arunaa Devi

Thank you. It’s very very helpful

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Happy to help!

Mohammad ABualughod

Thank you. Would you explain how I got the error? In order to avoid it. Please Thank you

Kapil Arya Author

^^ As mentioned in article also, you can avoid incomplete rows or columns to safeguard from this issue.

Sachi

Very helpful to solve the problem. Thank you Mr. Kapil.

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Glad to help Sachi!

faheem

Its working..
Thanks brother..

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Glad to help 😎

Lakhan

Very Very Helpful, Thanks

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