Locking Rows and Columns
The spreadsheet we are working on is quite large. You will notice, that while scrolling the column with the column labels will frequently disappear, leaving you quite lost. The same with the country names. To avoid this you can “lock” rows and columns so they don’t disappear.
Walkthrough: Locking the top row
- Go to the Spreadsheet with our data and scroll to the top.
- On the top left, where the column and row labels are you’ll see a small striped area.

- Hover over the striped bar on top of box showing row “1”. A hand shaped cursor should appear, click and drag it down one row.
- Your result should look like this:

- Try scrolling – notice how the top row remains fixed?
