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To freeze multiple rows (starting with row 1), select the row below the last row you want frozen and click Freeze Panes. To freeze multiple columns, select the column to the right of the last column you want frozen and click Freeze Panes. Say you want to freeze the top four rows and leftmost three columns. You'd select cell D5, and then on the View tab, click Freeze Panes. Any time you freeze rows. To freeze the top row, execute the following steps. On the View tab, in the Window. When you freeze panes, the rows above and columns to the left of the active cell are immobilized. In order to change the freeze point, you must unfreeze and freeze the cells again. Select a cell next to the row and/or column you want to freeze. If you select a cell in the first column, only the rows above it will freeze (no columns). To freeze the first row and column, open your Excel spreadsheet. Then select the Layout tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Click on the Freeze Panes button and click on the Freeze Panes option in the popup menu.
September 05, 2017 - by Bill Jelen
Excel has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. This article will show you how to find the shortcut for any command that your frequently use. Also - a look at Freeze Panes in Excel.
There are hundreds more shortcuts like this which you can easily learn. Press and release Alt in Excel to see key tips for each tab in the Ribbon (plus numbered key tips for the Quick Access Toolbar. Press the letter corresponding to a Ribbon tab to see the key tips for all of the commands on that tab.
In this particular case, clicking Alt + W + F reveals a third level of key tips, so Alt + W,F, F completes the command.
Thanks to Bradford Myers for sending in this idea.
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Learn Excel From MrExcel, Podcast Episode 2146: How To Figure Out Shortcut Keys.
Alright, so, for these last, what, 20-some episodes, I've been talking about my favorite shortcut keys but these may not be your favorite shortcut keys. So, what's important to you is, what are the things you're doing over and over and over, right, and what's the keyboard shortcut for that, right?
So, the first thing you should do is look in the command and see if the tool tip tells you what the keyboard shortcut is. Like, for example, AUTOSUM. If we come up here to AUTOSUM and hover over SUM, right there, it tells us that the shortcut key is ALT+=, alright?
So that's going to be the fastest way to run that command, but let's say that you had to do VIEW, FREEZE PANES, FREEZE PANES right? See, I hover, hover, hover, hover, hover. There's nothing there that's going to offer freeze panes. Now, if you prefer to use the mouse, by all means, right click, ADD GALLERY TO QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR. I don't like that at all. I would really want to have just FREEZE PANES on the QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR.
Maybe we customize, but the keyboard shortcut for this, for anything that you want to learn how to do, just press and release ALT, and then you see that there's little key tips on, well, first off, all the quick access toolbar items. Those are awesome. The first 9 are easy to do, you know, so you should have your best ones there, but then I know that I want to go to the VIEW tab.
So, the key tip is W, so, I press W to get to the VIEW tab, and then they add more key tips. So, to open the FREEZE PANES, it's going to be F. So, it's going to be ALT+W, F, and then the top one is FREEZE PANES, so ALT+W, F, F, and if you find that you're constantly using FREEZE PANES over and over and over again, figure out what that string is, alright, and just do 1 a week, just 1 a week. Try and get 1 new one a week, and so ALT+W, F, F, right there, and I was able to freeze panes. Already, that's so much faster than going to click on VIEW, OPEN FREEZE PANES, choose FREEZE PANES, you know, and then move your hand back to the mouse.
So, ALT+W, F, F, and this podcast isn't about that one keyboard shortcut. It's about how to figure out the keyboard shortcut for anything you find yourself doing frequently. If you ever want to become incredibly fast at Excel, using keyboard shortcuts is the fast, fast..using keyboard shortcuts is the best way to make you really, really fast at Excel.
Thanks for stopping by. We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
Title Photo: Survivor / Pixabay
We all love the ability to organize data, in spreadsheets. I love Excel 2008 and its other versions, though I always am aware of ways that things can be improved. I'm sure the tip in this article for Excel 2008 for the Mac will apply to other versions as well.
Okay—so if you're using the spiffy new Excel 2008 for Mac—you may have had the chance to learn some new things over and against the older versions.
Excel For Mac Freeze Panes Pro
One thing that you may have learned to do (in older Excel versions) is keep data relevant by maintaining the visibility of row-header (left column) and column-header (top-row) title information by using the Excel option freeze panes from the window menu. (This is from a list of Excel tutorials—which did seem to pose some problems for a few people accessing it.)
You might have a problem using this option, if you're working in Mac's Excel 2008. The reason would be that you're in the Page View mode, rather than the Normal View mode—which can be selected from the 'View Menu.'
Reminders in outlook for mac. I like the 'Page Layout' view because it gives you the feeling of holding ordinary paper, and gives you the view of what your printed Excel sheets will look like, but because freezing panes does not affect printing, it cannot thus affect how 'Page Layout' view will look. 'Normal View' is where you want to be.
Excel 2016 Mac Freeze Panes
This answer was found on the following help forum thread: 'Excel Freeze Panes ghosted – Why?' which taught me an invaluable lesson about forum diving:
Forum Help Tip #1: Scrolling to the bottom of a help forum may save you some time, though I may have learned more by reading the whole thing. (The above forum thread has the answer at the bottom—as the last post.)
So, true to form, as mentioned above:
If you find yourself asking 'How do I freeze panes in Excel 2008 for the Mac?' and can't freeze panes because the option is gray / greyed-out, ghosted, or whatever you call it, here's your answer:
Why Won't Excel Freeze Panes
Use 'Normal' view, not 'Page Layout' and Freeze Panes will work fine. (Use the 'View' menu.)
P.S. Having to research this tip helped me remember why I was blogging, and lifted me out of a doldrums of existential questioning about the life of this blog itself, at least for the moment. This experience with not being able to freeze panes in Microsoft Excel 2008 for the Mac left me with this thought: in other words: one practical reason I started this blog was to remember/record ways of helping keep track of vital things I'd learned in an easy-to-find place, while sharing them with other people.
P.P.S. I've discovered (having lost this article once) that WordPress doesn't seem to autosave all the data in a blog post (not my main text, anyhow—though my zemanta assisted keywords and meta-stuff remained). Maybe composing in Google docs or the like would be a better idea?
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Maybe we customize, but the keyboard shortcut for this, for anything that you want to learn how to do, just press and release ALT, and then you see that there's little key tips on, well, first off, all the quick access toolbar items. Those are awesome. The first 9 are easy to do, you know, so you should have your best ones there, but then I know that I want to go to the VIEW tab.
So, the key tip is W, so, I press W to get to the VIEW tab, and then they add more key tips. So, to open the FREEZE PANES, it's going to be F. So, it's going to be ALT+W, F, and then the top one is FREEZE PANES, so ALT+W, F, F, and if you find that you're constantly using FREEZE PANES over and over and over again, figure out what that string is, alright, and just do 1 a week, just 1 a week. Try and get 1 new one a week, and so ALT+W, F, F, right there, and I was able to freeze panes. Already, that's so much faster than going to click on VIEW, OPEN FREEZE PANES, choose FREEZE PANES, you know, and then move your hand back to the mouse.
So, ALT+W, F, F, and this podcast isn't about that one keyboard shortcut. It's about how to figure out the keyboard shortcut for anything you find yourself doing frequently. If you ever want to become incredibly fast at Excel, using keyboard shortcuts is the fast, fast..using keyboard shortcuts is the best way to make you really, really fast at Excel.
Thanks for stopping by. We'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
Title Photo: Survivor / Pixabay
We all love the ability to organize data, in spreadsheets. I love Excel 2008 and its other versions, though I always am aware of ways that things can be improved. I'm sure the tip in this article for Excel 2008 for the Mac will apply to other versions as well.
Okay—so if you're using the spiffy new Excel 2008 for Mac—you may have had the chance to learn some new things over and against the older versions.
Excel For Mac Freeze Panes Pro
One thing that you may have learned to do (in older Excel versions) is keep data relevant by maintaining the visibility of row-header (left column) and column-header (top-row) title information by using the Excel option freeze panes from the window menu. (This is from a list of Excel tutorials—which did seem to pose some problems for a few people accessing it.)
You might have a problem using this option, if you're working in Mac's Excel 2008. The reason would be that you're in the Page View mode, rather than the Normal View mode—which can be selected from the 'View Menu.'
Reminders in outlook for mac. I like the 'Page Layout' view because it gives you the feeling of holding ordinary paper, and gives you the view of what your printed Excel sheets will look like, but because freezing panes does not affect printing, it cannot thus affect how 'Page Layout' view will look. 'Normal View' is where you want to be.
Excel 2016 Mac Freeze Panes
This answer was found on the following help forum thread: 'Excel Freeze Panes ghosted – Why?' which taught me an invaluable lesson about forum diving:
Forum Help Tip #1: Scrolling to the bottom of a help forum may save you some time, though I may have learned more by reading the whole thing. (The above forum thread has the answer at the bottom—as the last post.)
So, true to form, as mentioned above:
If you find yourself asking 'How do I freeze panes in Excel 2008 for the Mac?' and can't freeze panes because the option is gray / greyed-out, ghosted, or whatever you call it, here's your answer:
Why Won't Excel Freeze Panes
Use 'Normal' view, not 'Page Layout' and Freeze Panes will work fine. (Use the 'View' menu.)
P.S. Having to research this tip helped me remember why I was blogging, and lifted me out of a doldrums of existential questioning about the life of this blog itself, at least for the moment. This experience with not being able to freeze panes in Microsoft Excel 2008 for the Mac left me with this thought: in other words: one practical reason I started this blog was to remember/record ways of helping keep track of vital things I'd learned in an easy-to-find place, while sharing them with other people.
P.P.S. I've discovered (having lost this article once) that WordPress doesn't seem to autosave all the data in a blog post (not my main text, anyhow—though my zemanta assisted keywords and meta-stuff remained). Maybe composing in Google docs or the like would be a better idea?
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