We have a problem, and it is not the 600 columns. The problem is that a tool meant to organize data is forcing a user to fight its own design. When someone has to ask how to print 180 separate blocks of columns while anchoring column A, the spreadsheet has stopped being an assistant and become an obstacle. The person who posted this is not asking for a feature, they are asking for a way out of a workflow that was never built for the scale and shape of their actual work.
Traditional spreadsheets treat columns as sacred, immutable structures. You get a grid, you fit your data into it, and if your data has 600 columns, you scroll horizontally until your wrist aches. The assumption baked into those tools is that the user will adapt. But the real-world data at issue does not have a 'standard' number of columns per user. Some users have two columns, others have six. The grid does not care. The grid expects uniformity, and when it does not get it, the user pays the price in manual labor, 180 times over.
What this user needs is not a clever print setting or a macro. They need a data model that understands the relationship between column A and the blocks that follow. They need a tool that treats each user's columns as a logical group, not as an arbitrary run of cells. This is where AI-native spreadsheets change the conversation. Instead of forcing the user to write formulas or scripts to extract and rearrange data, the tool can recognize the pattern, preserve the anchor, and output the blocks automatically. The technology exists. The question is whether the industry will stop asking users to bend to the grid and start building grids that bend to the user.
So here is our plain opinion: if you are spending hours printing column A over and over, the spreadsheet is failing you. Do not accept that as normal. Explore tools that treat your data as what it is, a collection of related groups, not a monolithic table. The solution is not a better print dialog. It is a smarter way to think about columns, anchors, and the human who has better things to do than repeat the same action 180 times.