Step 1: Grab the bar on the far right side and drag down
Step 2: Drag until the top bar to below the cells you want frozen at the top
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. 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.
Freeze Top Rows In Excel
Step 3: Grab the bar on the bottom right and drag to the right.
Step 4: Drag the bar until it is to the right of the cells you want frozen on the left.
Step 5: Freeze the panes. On a Mac go to the Window menu and then select freeze pane. On a PC, you’ll go to the View menu. One nice time saver on the PC version is it has the option on the View / Freeze Pane menu to freeze the first row and/or the first column.
UPDATE: As a response to this post, my friend Michelle asked how to make the same rows print at the top of every page. Go to Page Set-up and select the “Sheet” tab. Click the strange button to the right of the “Rows to repeat at top:” box and then select the row(s) you want. The option to repeat columns on the left is right below if you want to do that.
