Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Inside Out

Viewing Worksheets

Excel provides a few helpful features you can use to change the way worksheets are displayed. You can set up your workspace for specific tasks and then save the same view settings for the next time you need to perform the same task.

Splitting Worksheets into Panes

Worksheet panes let you view different areas of your worksheet simultaneously. You can split any worksheet in a workbook vertically, horizontally, or both vertically and horizontally and have synchronized scrolling capabilities in each pane. On the worksheet shown in Figure 6-17, columns B through M and rows 4 through 37 contain data. Column N and row 38 contain the totals. In Normal view, it’s impossible to see the totals and the headings at the same time.

Figure 6-17. You ...