How to keep part of a spreadsheet always visible during navigation

Question

I want to apologize in advance for asking something that's clearly available on the web. Unfortunately, I don't know the appropriate terminology though.

I'm looking to keep certain rows/columns always shown in excel. For example, in a worksheet with a lot of columns, I always want to see the name that exists on the far left. More importantly, how do I turn this off?

Answer 1

Use the Freeze Pane function, as illustrated here.

Excel has a nice feature called Freeze Panes that can solve such a problem. This feature allows you to keep information from scrolling off the screen when moving through a spreadsheet. As a matter of habit, I always freeze the second row.

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To freeze columns and rows in Excel,

1. From the View menu, verify you're using Normal.
2. Click the row number just below the area you'd like to freeze. The whole row should highlight.
3. Click the cell on that highlighted row to the right of the columns you would like to freeze.
4. From the Window menu, select Freeze Panes.

You can also Unfreeze Panes using the dropdown box on the Freeze Panes button.

Answer 2

Additional Help

Freeze or Lock Rows and Columns

I found it Very Difficult to figure out how to do this for the Top row and for a couple of Columns. I did figure it out however,

First Split the panes

and then move the large black Lines to the rows and columns that you want Static (or Fixed)

you can click Freeze panes > Freeze Panes and then click Split or you can just click Split. if you do anything else in the Freeze Panes and then Try to Split it will only Give you One Thick Black Line.

if your focus is in the are that is Static (Fixed/Locked) and try to scroll you will scroll only that pane.

I am using Excel 2010

Answer 3

Microsoft Excel for Mac

Ribbon > View > Freeze section:

Freeze Panes
Unfreeze Panes
Freeze Top Row
Freeze First Column