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SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, when you record a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, macro that changes the page setup for grouped sheets, and you run the recorded macro, the setting is modified for the active sheet only. This behavior is incorrect: when you are in group edit mode, the page setup should be changed for all sheets in the group.

Note that this problem does not occur when you record the macro in the Microsoft Excel 4.0 Macro language.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, write a looping macro that makes the page setup changes to each sheet individually. The following macro changes page orientation to landscape on all grouped sheets in a workbook.

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Macro Example

Sub ChangeSettings()
    For Each xSheet In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
        xSheet.PageSetup.Orientation = xlLandscape
    Next xSheet
End Sub

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Record a macro that groups Sheet1 through Sheet5 in a new workbook and changes page orientation to landscape.

2. Stop the recorder and check page setup on the sheets to see that they were all changed to landscape.

3. Regroup the sheets and change orientation back to portrait.

4. Ungroup the sheets and run the macro.

5. Check the orientation on some of the sheets.