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Excel at 40
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Excel at 40

by MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books, Bill Jelen
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
207 pages
6h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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  1. Freeze Panes

Freeze Panes is a great way to keep headings at the top and/or left of your spreadsheet in view as you scroll.

The whole key to Freeze Panes is figuring out what cell has to be the active cell when you invoke the command! Here is my attempt at simplifying it:

Every Visible Cell Above and/or To the Left Of the Active Cell When you Invoke Freeze Panes Will stay Visible as you scroll.

Everything else, including the cell that was the active cell can now be scrolled out of view.

This spreadsheet is really small, but I will explain what is going on. Hundreds of rows of customer data. At least 52 weeks of columns. Think about what you really NEED to see as you scroll. Do you need those three rows of Titles in A1:A3? No. Do you need the ...

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ISBN: 9781806695416