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title: "What is Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?"  
description: "What is Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?"  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-03-25  
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# What is Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?

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

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![What is Freeze Panes in MS-Excel?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/1ccf49a1-3174-44be-8105-99e843fd23b7/images/31ad12d2-4cfa-440a-8a7e-269d648da645.jpeg)\

- Go to the **View tab, where you can Freeze Panes** to lock select rows and columns in place, or Split Panes to create separate windows of the same worksheet, to keep one section of a worksheet visible while you navigate to another area of the worksheet.
- **The first column should be frozen.**Choose View > Freeze Panes > Freeze First Column from the View [**menu**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50346/how-to-change-language-of-your-iphone-6s-and-its-menus). The weak line between Column A and Column B indicates that the first column is frozen.
- **The first two columns should be frozen. -**The third column should be selected. Select View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes from the View menu.
- **Columns and rows should be frozen.** When you scroll, select the cell below the rows and to the right of the columns you want to keep visible. Select View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes from the View menu.

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