Permanently visible colunm in an Excel chart

Hi, could someone please tell me how to 'lock' a column in an excel
chart? I am using Office XP (2002) on Windows XP Pro SP2.

I downloaded a template from Microsoft called 'Landscape Plant List',
which is basically a list of plants, along with their needs &
characteristics. The name of the plant is in column B, and then multiple
columns to the right of that contain various bits of information about
the plant specified in that column.

The chart is wider than the screen, so one has to scroll across to see
the columns on the far right, and when I scroll across the chart _Column
B, with the plant name in it remains stationary_, and thus is visible,
all the time.

I'd like to design some excel charts of my own with a similar 'locked
main-title column' but wherever I've tried looking in cell or column
properties etc, I can't seem to spot what it is they've done on the
downloaded template to make it behave like that.

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Cheers,
Robin McInnes

Cheshire, UK

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Hi Robin,
Select on the intersect you want to "lock" i.e. if you only want to lock
Column A, highlight Col B and go to Window>Freeze Panes.

If you want to lock the row headers as well - select cell B2 and go to
Window>Freeze Panes.

You could also use Window > Split in a simlar way, and this will allow you
to navigate within each of the frames as well.

Hope this helps

Sunil Jayakumar


"Robin McInnes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi, could someone please tell me how to 'lock' a column in an excel chart?
> I am using Office XP (2002) on Windows XP Pro SP2.
>
> I downloaded a template from Microsoft called 'Landscape Plant List',
> which is basically a list of plants, along with their needs &
> characteristics. The name of the plant is in column B, and then multiple
> columns to the right of that contain various bits of information about the
> plant specified in that column.
>
> The chart is wider than the screen, so one has to scroll across to see the
> columns on the far right, and when I scroll across the chart _Column B,
> with the plant name in it remains stationary_, and thus is visible, all
> the time.
>
> I'd like to design some excel charts of my own with a similar 'locked
> main-title column' but wherever I've tried looking in cell or column
> properties etc, I can't seem to spot what it is they've done on the
> downloaded template to make it behave like that.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Robin McInnes
>
> Cheshire, UK
>
> (Email address in header contains a spam trap. Remove it to email me.)

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Good afternoon mate ...

All it takes is ... highlight Column C and go to "Window"
menu and choose Freeze panes, whilst still having column C
highlighted ,if u want to remove just choose unfreeze
panes from same window menu ...

Good day to you !
Brian

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, could someone please tell me how to 'lock' a column
in an excel
>chart? I am using Office XP (2002) on Windows XP Pro SP2.
>
>I downloaded a template from Microsoft called 'Landscape
Plant List',
>which is basically a list of plants, along with their
needs &
>characteristics. The name of the plant is in column B,
and then multiple
>columns to the right of that contain various bits of
information about
>the plant specified in that column.
>
>The chart is wider than the screen, so one has to scroll
across to see
>the columns on the far right, and when I scroll across
the chart _Column
>B, with the plant name in it remains stationary_, and
thus is visible,
>all the time.
>
>I'd like to design some excel charts of my own with a
similar 'locked
>main-title column' but wherever I've tried looking in
cell or column
>properties etc, I can't seem to spot what it is they've
done on the
>downloaded template to make it behave like that.
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Robin McInnes
>
>Cheshire, UK
>
>(Email address in header contains a spam trap. Remove it
to email me.)
>.
>

Brian & Sunil, that was exactly what I needed to know. Thank you both
very much indeed.

--
Cheers,
Robin McInnes

Cheshire, UK

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Hi Robin,

Thanks for the feedback - happy to help.

Cheers

Sunil Jayakumar

"Robin McInnes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Brian & Sunil, that was exactly what I needed to know. Thank you both very
> much indeed.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Robin McInnes
>
> Cheshire, UK
>
> (Email address in header contains a spam trap. Remove it to email me.)

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