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Posted on Apr 09, 2009

Freeze panes doesn't work in mac excel

I place the cursor below the headings I want to freeze, and beside the column I want to freeze. I click Freeze Panes which is available in the Window/Freeze Panes menu. 
I scroll my cursor to the right and the left hand column I have frozen disappears - i.e. it has not frozen. 
Is there a workaround? 

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HOW TO FREEZE THE TOP ROW OF EXCEL FOR MAC:

Wow - using the above ideas I figured out how to freeze the top row!!! Thanks guys!! Here's how:

1.) Use 'Normal' View (i.e. look up at tool bar, hover over 'View' and make sure 'Normal' is checked)
2.) Select cell B2 (only the cell, not the row or the column)
3.) Click 'Window' (from the tool bar at the top of your screen)
4.) Click 'Freeze Panes'

...et voila! :-)

  • Anonymous Aug 15, 2012

    Thanks! I did it with your help.

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Here you go - I have looked around and found an osX forum, the solution is though that you have to be in view = normal for freeze panes to work in Mac apps.
click view, select normal. Try freeze panes again.
I still have trouble getting column A (my 'date' column) to freeze tho.
Cheers
adam

  • lena85lin Aug 27, 2010

    Thanks Adam!! Saved me from pulling out my hair completely!

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HAHAHA I fixed the problem for MACs to freeze the left column.. You have to select the cell that is to the right and below the column you would like to freeze. So pretend you want to freeze the A column, rows 1 through 35 - then select cell B 36!! Took forever. I still have no clue how to also freeze the top header row as well as the left column, but this works for me ..

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  • kecs Dec 14, 2010

    This did not work for me. Any other suggestions?

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    sepidehsabet Sep 04, 2012

    Thank you! It worked for me

  • Anonymous Oct 05, 2012

    Super helpful. Worked for me. What a ridiculous thing to have to do. lol. Could NOT figure out how to freeze the panes I wanted to....****.

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