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title: "What are Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?"  
description: "What are Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?"  
author: "Aarav Maurya"  
published: 2017-12-16  
updated: 2017-12-16  
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# What are Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?

What are [Freeze Panes](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/109580/how-to-freeze-panes-in-excel) in MS-Excel?

## Answers

### Answer by Hemant Patel

Freeze Panes in MS-Excel is used to lock any row or column. When users scroll the sheet vertically or horizontally, the locked row or column will be visible on the screen.

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