Freeze Row Excel For Mac

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When you're working in large spreadsheets, it can be hard to know what you're looking at once you scroll away from the header rows and columns. To fix this problem, you can freeze part of the worksheet so that even when you scroll, the headings are displayed.

  • To freeze the top row, open your Excel spreadsheet. Select the Layout tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Click on the Freeze Panes button and click on the Freeze Top Row option in the popup menu. Now when you scroll down, you should still continue to see the column headings.
  • 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.
  • Excel is the most powerful tool for analyzing large sets of data. However, to keep your headers on screen, you need to learn how to freeze a row in excel on mac.That way, you won’t lose sight of valuable data on your top row or column when scrolling your spreadsheet.

Freeze Rows

I just signed up for the latest MS Office 365 Business Edition for my MAC through my ISP, Go Daddy. I assume it's 2016. I am unable to freeze several rows because the 'View' drop down menu only allows you 3 choices: 1. Unfreeze Panes. Freeze Top Row. Freeze First Column. I have tried all kinds of work-arounds with no luck.

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.

  1. 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). If you select a cell in the first row, only the columns to the left will freeze (no rows).

  2. Click the View tab.
  3. Click the Freeze Panes button.
  4. Select Freeze Panes.
  5. Scroll to verify the cells are frozen.

The frozen cells are visible no matter how far you scroll.

Freeze the First Row or Column

Freeze Row Excel Mac

When you freeze only the first row or column, it doesn’t matter which cell is selected when the freeze is applied.

  1. Click the View tab.
  2. Ciick the Freeze Panes button.
  3. Select Freeze Top Row or Freeze First Column.
    • Freeze Top Row Keeps the top row visible while scrolling through the worksheet.
    • Freeze First Column Keeps the first column visible while scrolling through the worksheet.
  4. Scroll in the worksheet to verify the freeze is applied.

Unfreeze Panes

If you no longer need the cells in a spreadsheet to be frozen, you can unfreeze them at any time.

  1. Click the View tab.
  2. Click the Freeze Panes button.
  3. Select Unfreeze Panes.

If you are usually working with large worksheets, it is really important that you become familiar with the steps to Freeze Rows and Columns in Excel.

Freeze Rows and Columns in Excel

As you must have noticed, the Column headings go out of view and are no longer visible when you scroll down in an Excel worksheet.

Without the Column headings being visible, it becomes really difficult to enter new data in to proper Columns or to review and compare the existing data.

A simple solution to this problem is to simply Freeze the entire Row containing Columns headings. Once this is done, the Column headings will become frozen and will always be visible when you scroll down.

Similarly, it is possible to Freeze Columns and also Freeze both Rows and Columns at the same time in Excel.

Note: Freezing Rows or Columns has no effect on printing, it only affects the way that worksheet appears on the screen.

1. Freeze Rows in Excel

In case you want to make the Column Headings stationary and always visible when you scroll down, you can follow the steps below to Freeze the Row containing Column headings.

1.1. Select the Row (or the first cell in the row) located right below the Row that contains the Column headings.

1.2. Next, click on the View tab > click on Freeze Panes and then click on Freeze Panes option in the drop-down menu.

This will freeze the Row containing Column Headings and this particular Row will always stay visible when you scroll down the worksheet.

2. Freeze Columns in Excel

If the worksheet spans multiple columns you may want to make certain column/columns always visible when you scroll to the side on the worksheet (Right or Left).

2.1. Select any Cell located immediately to the right of the Column that you want to freeze. In our case, we have selected Cell B2, in order to Freeze the Column A containing “Items”.

2.2. Next, click on the View tab > click on Freeze Panes and then click on Freeze Panes in the drop-down menu.

This will Freeze Column A and this particular Column will always stay visible when you scroll sideways on the worksheet

3. Freeze Both Rows and Columns in Excel

In certain cases, you may want to Freeze the Row containing Column Headings and also Freeze the first column or few selected columns in the worksheet.

To Freeze both rows and columns, select the Cell located to the right of the Column that you want to Freeze and below the Row that you want to Freeze.

In our case, we have selected Cell B2 in order to Freeze the second Row containing column headings and also Freeze Column A containing “Items”.

After selecting the right-cell, click on the View tab > Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes option in the drop-down menu.

Now the rows above the selected Cell will remain frozen when you scroll down and also the Columns to the left of the selected Cell will also remain frozen when you scroll to the side.

Unfreeze Rows and Columns Panes in Excel

How To Freeze More Than One Row

At any time, you can Unfreeze Rows and Columns in Excel by clicking on the View Tab > Freeze Panes > Unfreeze Panes option in the drop-down menu.

The Frozen Rows or Columns will become free and they will no longer remain frozen or stationary when you scrolled up or down.

Freeze Panes Not Available in Excel

You may come across an issue where the Freeze Panes option is not available, appears grayed out or it does not work. This issue is usually related to the worksheet being in “Page Layout” view.

To fix this issue, click on the View Tab and then click on Normal or Page Break Preview.

Freeze Panes option can also get disabled due to the workbook being in protected mode.

Freeze Row Excel For Mac

However, this issue has been fixed in newer versions of Microsoft Excel and you will only face this problem while working on files created using an older versions of Excel (older than Excel 2013).