Freezing a row in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets can organize your spreadsheet and make sorting through data a breeze. Here's how to do it.

You use Microsoft Excel 's built-in function to freeze specific rows and columns (often row or column headers), so when you’re scrolling through, these cells remain stationary on the page.

The freeze panes feature is particularly useful for comparing data across distant rows or columns. For instance, to compare row 12 with row 87, select row 13 and activate 'Freeze Panes'.

Launch Microsoft Excel. Select the entire range of columns along with the rows. Apply Conditional Formatting to the selected range of rows and columns. Click OK. Let’s see the above steps in detail.

Apply text and cell styles to your column and row heads to help you quickly recognize your data in its new, transposed layout. Excel will retain all cell formatting changes even after you make the ...

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Click OK to return to the sheet. Figure F This conditional format will highlight the subtotaling rows. Currently, the data set contains no formulas in column C so there’s no formatting.

Select the row that needs to be frozen, click the Freeze Pane drop-down once again, and choose Freeze First Column. If you want to freeze multiple rows, click a cell underneath the last row you ...

Excel refers to rows by number and columns by letter, starting the first row at one and the first column with "A". For some purposes, this is fine, but you often want to add your own column labels ...