It is not concentrated in columns, but located in rows. Freezing columns in Excelįor instance, the information in the table has a horizontal direction. There you must always (!) activate the cell under the freeze row. In earlier versions the “Lock areas” tool is located in the “Window” menu on the main page. Note: This method works for 20 Excel versions.
Thus, you can fix two, three, four and more rows. When you perform horizontal and vertical scrolling, the cap and the top row of the table remain fixed. This action will help Excel to “understand”, which area should be fixed Select any cell under the line, which we will fix.Doing it is possible and easy, when you follow these steps: For instance, another row or even a couple of rows must be fixed when scrolling the document. Let us suppose, a user needs to fix not only the cap. Your browser can’t show this frame.Locking several rows in Excel while scrolling To see the steps for setting and preserving your Excel window settings, watch this short video tutorial. That should prevent the accidental loss of your freeze panes, and other settings.
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Leave the original window (FreezePanes.xlsx:1) open, and close the other windows (FreezePanes.xlsx:2). You’ll see a window number, along with the file name, in each window’s title bar. If you have opened one or more new windows in a workbook, be careful when you’re closing them. What a pain! Or should that be “what a pane!” Close Windows Carefully And, if you close the original window, instead of the second window, you’ll lose your window settings, and be left with the defaults. Then, when you’re finished with the extra window, you close one of them.
Freeze Panes line missing in new window.The new window is at the left, and its window settings are different. It uses the default window settings.įor example, in the screen shot below, the original settings are in the window at the right – FreezePanes.xlsx:1. What you might not notice though, is that the second window doesn’t retain the freeze panes, gridlines and other settings that you so carefully applied. Or you can look at two different sheet in the same workbook, side by side. The most likely culprit is you – if you opened a second window in the workbook.įor example, you might open a second window to see the cell formulas in one window, and the formula results in another window. If this has happened to your files, you can probably stop grilling your co-workers, to find out who messed with your workbook. Thanks John, for inspiring this blog post and video. This occurred in John’s files occasionally, and he asked if I could figure out what was going wrong. Nobody else has touched the file (or so they say), so how could all those settings have disappeared? It’s much easier to work with the file this way.Ī couple of days later, you cheerfully open your file again, and…what happened? All those special settings are gone. When you open the file the next day, you appreciate all the effort that you put into setting things up. You spend time setting up your worksheets exactly the way you want them – the headings are frozen at the top of the screen, gridlines are turned off, and a few other customizations are made.
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