Issues with freezing in Excel If you cannot freeze a row or a column in Excel, it could be that you are in cell editing mode.

Unless youre very familiar with that spreadsheet, losing these headings can make following the data more difficult than it should be.

You can freeze the top row in Excel and the first column to help with that if you like.

Heres how. The feature is called Freeze Panes and holds the first row andor the first column in place while you scroll through the spreadsheet.

If your spreadsheet isnt set up for this, it really should be.

It makes comparing data so much easier if the headings and sections remain in place.

Freeze the top row in Excel Freezing the top row in Excel makes it easy to compare data to headings and is something everyone who uses spreadsheets regularly should know.

For once, it is actually very straightforward to do once you know how.

Scrolling down the page will keep the top row in place for the entirety of the spreadsheet.

Select the first cell in the column below the row you want to freeze.

For example, if you want to freeze the top three rows of a Worksheet, you would select the first cell in A4.

Once you Freeze Panes, lines A1,2 and 3 would be frozen and you can scroll wherever you need to compare the data.

Freeze a column in Excel Freezing a column has similar uses in Excel.

If your spreadsheet has multiple columns that require scrolling across the page, locking the first column down can help make sense of all that data.

You use the same tools as freezing rows but make a different selection within the dropdown.

Freeze multiple columns in Excel If you want to freeze multiple columns in Excel, you do that in the same way as you would freeze multiple rows.

Select the column to the right of the column you want to freeze.

For example, if you wanted to freeze the first three columns, select column D and Freeze Panes.

Freeze columns and rows in Excel You can also freeze columns and rows in Excel to make short work of data comparison.

Select the cell one row below and one column right of the rows and columns you want to freeze.

For example, if you wanted to freeze columns A and B and rows 1 and 2, you would select cell C3.

Freeze panes will lock down the first two columns and rows until you unfreeze them.

To unfreeze rows or columns in Excel If you just need to freeze a row temporarily to compare data, you can unfreeze once youre done.

It does not affect any data or the formatting so it would be as if you had never done it.

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