cannot freeze panes past row 13

[Stuckagainandagain]

Hi
I am trying to freeze panes on a large spreadsheet - Excel 2010
I am currently trying to freeze Columns A - J
and rows 1 - 188
when I select freeze panes (as per numerous videos/instructions I have found) and include it down to row 188 it still only freezes top 13 rows (all columns selected freeze though)
How can i get it to freeze ALL the rows?
There are no merged cells etc.

 

[Stuckagainandagain]

Welcome to the MrExcel board!

We can't really see that. What we can see is a dotted line there when normally a frozen pane is shown with a solid line. We can also see a similar dotted line above row 1 and you cannot have two horizontal frozen positions.

IF your sheet is frozen at row 13 then if you click the down arrow at the bottom of the right scroll bar rows 1:13 will still be visible but row 14 will disappear like below. Does that happen on your sheet?

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With your sheet as shown in your first image, can you run this macro & report the result?
To implement ..
1. With your workbook active press Alt+F11 to bring up the vba window.
2. In the Visual Basic window use the menu to Insert|Module
3. Copy and Paste the code below into the main right hand pane that opens at step 2.
4. Close the Visual Basic window.
5. Press Alt+F8 to bring up the Macro dialog
6. Select the macro & click ‘Run’

Sub test()
  MsgBox "Visible Frozen rows: " & ActiveWindow.Panes(1).VisibleRange.EntireRow.Address
End Sub

and again showing when i scroll they move under row 13 -

 

[Peter_SSs]

when I select ... and include it down to row 188 it still only freezes top 13 rows

OK, on re-reading I think this may be the problem. When freezing rows (or columns) you do not select the rows/columns you want frozen. The active cell must be the cell below and to the right of your 'freeze point'.

Michael asked

Did you select Cell J188 THEN choose Freeze ??

He didn't ask "Did you select from A1 down to J188?

So try this

- unfreeze
- scroll down across so that column A is visible (if you want that column visible after the freeze panes) and as many rows as you want visible above row 188 are visible (they cannot all be visible) and select the single cell K189 (the below/right of what you want frozen)
- freeze panes

If you originally selected A1:J188 as I suspect before freezing, Excel will apply the freeze panes around about the centre of the visible range - which is what your screen shots appear to be showing.

 

[Stuckagainandagain]

OK, on re-reading I think this may be the problem. When freezing rows (or columns) you do not select the rows/columns you want frozen. The active cell must be the cell below and to the right of your 'freeze point'.

Michael asked
He didn't ask "Did you select from A1 down to J188?

So try this

- unfreeze
- scroll down across so that column A is visible (if you want that column visible after the freeze panes) and as many rows as you want visible above row 188 are visible (they cannot all be visible) and select the single cell K189 (the below/right of what you want frozen)
- freeze panes

If you originally selected A1:J188 as I suspect before freezing, Excel will apply the freeze panes around about the centre of the visible range - which is what your screen shots appear to be showing.

thanks have tried that - i am choosing J189 as that is the column/row to the bottom right of cells I want frozen
which are colums (A-I) and rows (1-188)

still doing the same thing. (rows only freeze to Line 13) and everything below scrolls up up under line 13 including columns J onwards......

maybe I'll just move my inventory to top 13 lines and my calculations to below row 14.

 

[Peter_SSs]

It may be possible that your workbook is corrupted. Close it and open a fresh workbook with nothing it it. Scroll down and select J189 and freeze panes. What happens in that workbook?