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Freezing and unfreezing panes

Freezing and unfreezing panes

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Freezing and unfreezing panes

- Like many lists in Excel, this list that we're seeing here is on a worksheet called Freezing in the Workbook 08 Worksheet Views, if we start to scroll downward using either arrow keys or the mouse, we lose sight of the top row. Titles are often in a single row up top, they can be in multiple rows in some cases, but the idea is as we move up and down we'd like to see row one all the time in this particular worksheet. Make sure it's visible, go to the Freeze Panes option, it's on the View tab and the ribbon. Freeze Panes, now we've got a choice called Freeze Top Row. The active cell doesn't have to be in the top row right now, but it has to be visible, the row that you'd like to freeze. Freeze Top Row. And now as we start to scroll downward, using either arrow keys or mouse wheel, or the scroll bar on the right hand side, we always see row one. This has no implications what-so-ever about printing, it's not related to that at all. It's just a visual change on the worksheet. If at a…

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