Freezing a row in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets can organize your spreadsheet and make sorting through data a breeze. Here's how to do it.

You use Microsoft Excel 's built-in function to freeze specific rows and columns (often row or column headers), so when you’re scrolling through, these cells remain stationary on the page.

Excel’s BYCOL() and BYROW() functions evaluate data across columns and rows, returning an array result set allowing you to bypass a lot of work.

Sometimes the current Microsoft Excel data structure doesn’t match requirements of other users and software. Learn how to fix the issue.

Excel ROW function will return the row number of a reference. ROWS will return the number of rows in a column. Learn how to use the Row and Rows function in Excel.

How to freeze rows in Excel 1. Select the row below the one you want to freeze If your table's header is on row 3, then select row 4. The row above the one you select is the one that will freeze.