How to freeze Rows & columns at the same time

[Charlie_Nairn]

I have Excel 365 for Mac. I need to freeze my Column A and Rows 1-3 at the same time. Excel Help says I can do this via View > Freeze Panes but in View I see no such option, only Unfreeze Panes, Freeze Top Row and Freeze First Column.

(It used to be easy in Excel fro Mac 2016!)

THANKS EVERYBODY - and Happy New Year despite everything.

CN

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Charlie_Nairn 

Apparently, Freeze Panes is already active.

So first select Unfreeze Panes from the Freeze Panes dropdown.

Then select cell B4, and select Freeze Panes from the Freeze Panes dropdown.

[#3]

Thanks Hans @Hans Vogelaar 

Your faultless advice worked perfectly.

Excel help is surprisingly unclear and suggests freezing column A first - which of course freezes that column and then you can't freeze rows.

But you've explained how to freeze Excel Rows & Columns at the same time 101% clearly & accurately.

So ... THANK YOU again.

cn

[#4]

It works. Thanks for your great advice.

It's so simple but can be frustrating if you don't know how!

@Hans Vogelaar 

[#5]

Thank you, this works perfectly!

[#6]

I had the same problem but I still can get only half of the solution to work. Clearly I am missing the point. Sometimes I get the top row to freeze but not the left most column to freeze. Or vice a versa. Help. I used to be able to freeze both with the beta version of excel years ago but as the product evolved I could no longer accomplish the task of getting both the top row and left column freeze at the same time. Help!

[#7]

Hans Vogelaar's EXCELLENT advice of

‎Jan 18 2021 03:44 AM

continues to work perfectly for me but I'm on Excel for Mac 16.69.1
He said:-

@Charlie_Nairn 

Apparently, Freeze Panes is already active.

So first select Unfreeze Panes from the Freeze Panes dropdown.

Then select cell B4, and select Freeze Panes from the Freeze Panes dropdown.

[#8]

@Fred_Abrams 

If the first item in the Freeze Panes drop down is Unfreeze Panes, select that.

Select the cell below the last row that you want to keep visible, and to the right of the last column that you want to keep visible.

So for example, if you want to freeze the first row and first column, select cell B2.

And if you want to freeze the first two rows and the first three columns, select cell D3.

Then select Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes.

[#9]

Worked, thanks much. For some reason it worked for me in cell B2, guess it is a formatting thing.