Excel 2013 - disable "scale content for a4 or 8.5 x11" paper sizes" deploy via group policy

Question

_{Friday, July 19, 2013 7:50 AM}

In office 2010 and 2013, the option "scale content for a4 or 8.5 x11" paper sizes" is enabled by default in word and excel.

I need to be disable this option on all machines, since it conflicts with our printers and doesn't allow us to print.

Ideally this should be done by group policy as our users change very frequently.

I have found the policy to disable this option in word, but can't find a similar policy setting for excel.

Any idea how I can resolve this?

All replies (2)

_{Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:13 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Based on my research, I cannot find any information to disable the paper size by GPO, so maybe this is not support for Excel.

Jaynet Zhang
TechNet Community Support

_{Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:56 PM}

Create the below given registry key using GPP  for Excel and apply that to the ou or security group to disable or enable the check mark.

0=Disable

1=enable

Navigate group policy "User Configuration\Preferences\Windows Settings\Registry"

Right click on Registry\New\Registry Item

Action: Update

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Key Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Options

Value name: A4Letter

Value Type: REG_DWORD

Value Data: 0