The size of Microsoft Word documents can be changed on existing documents at any time, regardless of their current size. If, for example, you have a document formatted in legal size -- 8.5' by 14' -- but you only have letter size -- 8.5' by 11' -- paper available to print on, shrink the document from legal to letter size.

I am trying to print an Excel spreadsheet, which is rather large. I want it to be only one page wide, and as many pages tall as is necessary. I want the font to be as large as possible, as long as it is only one page wide. So, in the print dialog, I told it to fit to 1 page wide, by [blank] pages tall.

I selected US Legal for the Destination Paper size and checked Scale to fit paper size (unchecking Scale down only) on the Paper Handling screen. In Page Setup, I chose landscape. I also tried specifying how many pages tall I wanted the document, but it had no affect. So, if when that field was blank, the document was 5 pages tall, I tried putting in 6, or 7.

The document stayed at 5 pages tall, and didn't use any additional width. In print preview, I am seeing that it is planning to use Legal paper, but it is not using the full width. It seems to have the same border it would use for letter paper. I am running MS Office 2008 on Mac OS 10.5.