Excel is one of the most prominent spreadsheet management tools available in the market today. It offers numerous features, display options, and even variables to manage all of your business data in one place. If you have been using Excel for a while, you might be familiar with its complexity, especially when you have data spanning hundreds of rows and columns. This can make it quite a challenge for you to keep track of the necessary categories or important data in certain columns and rows that you want to verify.

Fortunately, Excel allows you to freeze such data so that it is always visible on your screen, no matter where you scroll in the spreadsheet. Let’s take a quick look at this functionality.

Freeze panes is a term in Excel used to indicate static columns and rows. These rows and columns can be manually selected and converted into static elements. This ensures that the data in these rows and columns is always visible on your screen, regardless of the currently selected cell, row or column in the spreadsheet.

This functionality helps in taking a closer look at data, highlighting categories, verifying data, verifying against other measures, and much more.