Similarly, we can use the ‘Unfreeze Pane’ command from the View tab to unlock the cells which we have frozen. Let us take a practical example of the Weekly attendance report of a class. If we use the Freezing Panes command to freeze the columns and rows of excel cells, they will remain displayed on the screen regardless of the magnification settings that we select or how we scroll through the cells. Use of Rows & Column Freezing in Excel Cell Step 4: As we can see from the snapshot below, there are two grey lines denoting the locking of cells.Step 3: After selecting the cell, we just need to click on the view tab on the ribbon & select the ‘Freeze Panes’ command on the view tab.In our example, we just have to select the cell number H4. We just have to select the cell above, and besides which, we need to freeze the Columns & Rows Cells, respectively.

Step 2: We need to see the Column ‘B’ as well as the Row 7 throughout the worksheet.

The columns contain the headers as Day, Date, Regular Hours, Overtime Hours, Sick, Vacation & Total.

Step 1: The sheet below shows the timesheet of a company.

It is not necessary that only the row or the column can be locked at a single instance. It is to be noted that we can freeze Rows as well as columns together also. The ‘Freeze Top Row’ command freezes the row number ‘1’ & the ‘Freeze First Column’ command freezes the column number A cell. These commands are used only for freezing the top row and the first column, respectively. There are two other commands as well in the Freeze panes options, which are ‘Freeze Top Row’ & ‘Freeze First Column.’ As we can see in the snapshot below, the columns beside the grey line are frozen and do not move after we scroll the worksheet.įor unfreezing the columns, we use the same process as we did in the case of Rows, i.e., by using the unfreeze panes command from the view tab. We can scroll the entire worksheet & continuing viewing the frozen Columns.

Step 3: The selected columns get frozen in its position & it is denoted by a grey line.

We need to select the freeze panes command on the view tab.

Step 2: After selecting the columns, we need to click on the view tab on the ribbon.

Step 1: We need to select the Columns, which we need to freeze excel cells by clicking on the alphabet of the column.

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