How to unfreeze panes in Excel. To unfreeze panes, just do the following: go to the View tab, Window group, and click Freeze panes > Unfreeze Panes. Excel Freeze Panes tips. As you have just seen, freezing panes in Excel is one of the easiest tasks to perform. However, as is often the case with Microsoft, there is much more beneath the hood.
The tutorial demonstrates quick ways to freeze panes in Excel. You will learn how to quickly lock header row or/and the first column. You will also see how to freeze several panes at a time to make Excel always show certain rows or/and columns when you scroll down or right. These tips work in all modern versions of Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. As you probably know, the recent versions of Excel 2016, 2013 and 2010 allow using more than a million rows and over 16,000 columns per sheet.
Hardly anyone will ever use them to the limit, but if your worksheet contains tens or hundreds of rows, the column headers in the top row disappear when you are scrolling down to view lower entries. The good news is that you can easily fix that inconvenience by freezing panes in Excel. In Microsoft Excel terms, to freeze panes means to always show certain rows and/or columns at the top of a spreadsheet when scrolling. Bellow you will find the detailed steps for Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and lower versions. How to freeze rows in Excel Typically, you would want to lock the first row to see the column headers when you scroll down the sheet.
But sometimes your spreadsheet may contain important information in a few top rows and you may want to freeze them all. Below you will find the steps for both scenarios. How to freeze top row (header row) in Excel To always show the header row, just go to the View tab, and click Freeze Panes Freeze Top Row. Yep, it's that simple: ) Microsoft Excel gives you a visual clue to identify a frozen row by a bit thicker and darker border below it. Tips:. If you are working with Excel tables rather than ranges, you do not really need to lock the first row, because the table header always stays fixed at the top, no matter how many rows down you scroll in a table.
If you are going to print out your table and want to repeat header rows on every page, you may find this tutorial helpful -. How to lock multiple Excel rows Do you want to freeze several rows in your spreadsheet? No problem, you can lock as many rows as you want, as long as you always start with the top row.
Start by selecting the row below the last row you want to freeze. For example, if you wish to lock the top two rows, place the mouse cursor in cell A3 or select the entire row 3.
Head over to the View tab and click Freeze Panes Freeze Panes. The result will be similar to what you see in the screenshot below - the top 2 rows in your Excel worksheet are frozen and will always show up. If some of the rows that you wish to lock are out of view when you apply freezing, they won't show up later, nor will you be able to scroll up to those rows.
See how to in Excel. How to freeze columns in Excel You lock columns in Excel in exactly the same way as you lock rows. And again, you can choose to freeze the first column only or multiple columns. Lock the first column in a worksheet Freezing the first column is as simple as clicking View Freeze Panes Freeze First Column. A little darker and thicker border to the right of column A means that the left-most column in the table is frozen. How to freeze multiple columns in Excel If you want to lock more than one column in a sheet, proceed in this way:.
Select the column to the right of the last column you want to freeze. For example, if you want to freeze the first 3 columns (A - C), select the entire column D or cell D1. Just remember that frozen columns will always start from the left-most column (A), it's not possible to lock several columns somewhere in the middle of the sheet. And now, follow the already familiar path, i.e View tab Freeze panes and again Freeze panes. Please make sure that all the columns you want to lock are visible at the moment of freezing. If some of the columns are out of view, you won't see them later.
For more details, please see. How to freeze multiple panes in Excel (rows and columns) Do you wish to lock multiple rows and columns? No problem, you can do this as well, provided that you always start with the top row and first column.
To lock several rows and columns at a time, select a cell below the last row and to the right of the last column you want to freeze. For example, to freeze the top row and first column, select cell B2, go to the View tab and click Freeze Panes under Freeze Panes: In the same fashion, you can freeze as many Excel panes as you want.
For instance, to lock the first 2 rows and 2 columns, you select cell C3; to fix 3 rows and 3 columns, select cell D4 etc. Naturally, the number of locked rows and columns does not necessarily have to be the same. For example, to freeze 2 rows and 3 columns, you select. Guess which cell? Right, D3: ) How to unfreeze panes in Excel To unfreeze panes, just do the following: go to the View tab, Window group, and click Freeze panes Unfreeze Panes. Excel Freeze Panes tips As you have just seen, freezing panes in Excel is one of the easiest tasks to perform. However, as is often the case with Microsoft, there is much more beneath the hood.
What follows below is a caveat, an artifact and a tip. Caveat: Prevent hidden rows / columns when freezing Excel panes When you are locking several rows or columns in a spreadsheet, you may inadvertently hide some of them, and as a result, you won't see those hidden panes later. To avoid this, make sure that all the rows and/or columns you want to lock are within eyesight at the moment of freezing. For example, you wish to freeze the first three rows, but row 1 is currently out of view, as shown in the screenshot below. As the result, row 1 won't show up later and you won't be able to scroll up to it.
Though, you would still be able to get to the cells in a hidden frozen row using the arrow keys. Artifact: Excel may freeze panes totally different from what you expected Don't you believe me? Then try selecting cell A1, or the top visible row, or the leftmost visible column, click Freeze Panes and see what happens. For example, if you select row 4 while the first 3 rows are out of view (not hidden, just above the scroll) and click Freeze Panes, what would you expect? Most obviously, rows 1 - 3 would get frozen? Microsoft Excel thinks differently and the screenshot below shows one of many possible outcomes: So, please remember, the panes you are going to lock, both rows and columns, should always be in sight.
Tip: How to camouflage the Freeze Panes line If you are not particularly fond of the dark freeze panes line that Microsoft Excel draws underneath locked rows and to the right of locked columns, you can try disguising it with the help of shapes and a little creativity: ) If you think this is something that might work for you, please see the following article for step-by-step instructions -. And this is all for today, thank you for reading! Hi Svetlana, I need a help in Excel,I am not sure if this is the right forum that would help. I would like to create a percentile bar chart in excel. Can I attach my excel example? Detailed question: A table has 10 values.
In these 10 values 6 values are positive and 4 are negative. I need to create a chart, that shows percentage of positive values as bar chart. If this is not the right forum, please let me know where can I find an answer to such questions. Thanks in advance. Regards, AnandaBalan. My problem, also. I have used excel since it came on the market and I switched from Lotus123, if I remember correctly.
But every time I post this problem I get the same lecture on how to freeze rows like I was born yesterday. I have other spreadsheets with the top row frozen. But, even in those sheets the 'freeze' icon is no longer highlighted. Also, the fonts are huge even though it is set on 8.
The worksheets from previous years are the right font 11. If I have caused this problem on my Windows 10 will someone please tell me how to activate my freeze icon?
Clicking on 'normal' view does nothing.
. Click the Page Layout tab on the ribbon. In the Scale to Fit group, in the Width box, select 1 page, and in the Height box, select Automatic.
Columns will now appear on one page, but the rows may extend to more than one page. To print your worksheet on just one page, in the Height box, select 1 page. That said, if you do this however, the resulting printout may be hard to read, because Excel shrinks the data to fit. To see how much scaling is used, look at the number in the Scale box.
If it's a low number, you many need to make other adjustments before you print. For example, you may need to change the page orientation from portrait to landscape or target a larger paper size. To print your worksheet, press CTRL + P (CMD + P on a Mac) to open the Print dialog box, and then click OK. If your worksheet as a lot of columns, you may need to switch the page orientation from portrait to landscape.
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To do this, go to Page Layout Page Setup Orientation, and click Landscape. Consider using a larger paper size to accommodate a lot printed columns.
To switch the default paper size, go to Paper Layout Page Setup Size, and then choose the size you want. Use the Print Area command ( Page Setup group) to exclude any columns or rows that don't need to be printed. For example, if you want to print columns A through F, but not columns G through Z, set the print are to include only columns A through F. You can shrink or enlarge a worksheet for a better fit on printed pages. To do that, in Page Setup, click the Dialog Box Launcher. Then, under Scaling, click Adjust to, and then enter the percentage of the normal size that you want to use. Note: to reduce a worksheet to fit the printed pages, enter a percentage that is smaller than 100%.
To englarge a worksheet to fit the printed pages, enter a percentage greater than 100%. Page Layout view isn't' compatible with the Freeze Panes command. If you don't want to unfreeze the rows or columns in your worksheet, you can skip Page Layout view and instead use the Fit to options on the Page tab in the Page Setup dialog box. To do that, go to Page Layout tab, and int he Page Setup group, click the Dialog Box Launcher at the bottom-right side. Alternatively, press ALT+P, S, P. To print a worksheet on a specific number or pages, in Page Setup, click the Dialog Box Launcher. Then, under Scaling, in both of the Fit to boxes, enter the number of pages (wide and tall) on which you want to print the worksheet data. Note: Excel ignores manual page breaks when you use the Fit to option.
Excel also does not stretch the data to fill the pages. To Remove a scaling option, go to File Print Settings No Scaling. In the worksheet, click File Print. Under Settings, click Custom Scaling Custom Scaling Options.
Click Page and in the Adjust to box, pick a percentage by which you want to increase or decrease the font size. Review your changes in Print Preview and if you want a different font size, repeat the steps. Note: Before you click Print, check the paper size setting in the printer properties, and also make sure the printer actually has paper of that size. If the paper size setting is different from the paper size in your printer, Excel adjusts the printout to fit the paper size in the printer and the printed worksheet might not match your Print Preview.
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