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Are you familiar with the Freeze Panes functionality in Excel 2013/2016?
Freeze Panes has been around for awhile, and you’ve most likely seen or worked with a spreadsheet with a frozen top row or columns, but it can be easy to forget how to do it even if you’ve learned how before.
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Mar 28, 2019 - In this tutorial, you learn how to freeze panes in Excel. Freezing panes locks rows or columns. Remember to get the free exercise file too!
Check out the video above, or follow these steps:
- Go to the View tab.
- To freeze or lock your top row, click the Freeze Panes icon in the ribbon and select Freeze Top Row.
- To freeze or lock your first column, click the Freeze Panes icon and select Freeze First Column.
- To freeze multiple rows at the top of the spreadsheet, or columns on the left of the spreadsheet, select a column just below or just to the right of where you’d like to freeze. Click the Freeze Panes icon and select Freeze Panes.