Explore view options in Excel 07

Excel has several view options that the user can set up while working on a worksheet. These options can be changed at any time.

 

Zooming in and out on a large worksheet can be helpful so that you can see the actual data or the overall appearance of the worksheet. Freezing Panes can also be helpful if you need to see the row or column headings at all times. You can also hide columns so that you don't have to view that information. They are easily unhidden so don't worry! And if your document is very large, you can split the window so you have up to 4 parts that you can scroll independant of each other.

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How To Use the Zoom control:

1. From View tab, locate the Zoom group.
   • Zoom - allows you to pick what magnication you want to use
   • 100% - will reset your view to 100%
   • Zoom in Selection - will zoom in on the active cell(s)
2. Or you may use the Zoom level and slider at the right side of the status bar.
   • click on the 100% to pick what magnification you want to use.
   • slide the bar to the level of magnification you want.

How To Freeze Panes on a worksheet:

1. Click in the cell which is one column to the right of and one row below the information you want to freeze.
2. On the View tab, locate the Window group.
3. Choose Freeze panes.
   
   OR you didn't select anything, you can choose top row or first column.

How To Unfreeze Panes:

1. On the View tab, locate the Window group.
2. Choose Unfreeze panes.

How To Hide one or more rows or columns:

1. Select the row(s) or column(s) you want to hide.
2. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click Format.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Under Visibility, point to Hide & Unhide, and then click Hide Rows or Hide Columns.
   • Under Cell Size, click Row Height or Column Width, and then type 0 in the Row Height or Column Width box.

You can also right-click a row or column (or a selection of multiple rows or columns), and then click Hide.

How To Unhide or Display hidden rows or columns:

1. Do one of the following:
   • To display hidden rows, select the row above and below the rows that you want to unhide.
   • To display hidden columns, select the columns adjacent to either side of the columns that you want to unhide.
   • To display the first hidden row or column on a worksheet, select it by typing A1 in the Name Box next to the formular bar.
2. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click Format.
3. Do one of the following:

• Under Visibility, point to Hide & Unhide, and then click Hide Rows or Hide Columns.
• Under Cell Size, click Row Height or Column Width, and then type 0 in the Row Height or Column Width box.

You can also right-click the selection of visible rows and columns that surround the hidden rows and columns, and then click Unhide.

 

You can quickly split the worksheet window so you can scroll in two or four panes simultaneously.

1. Point to the split box either on the vertical or horizontal scroll.
2. When the cursor becomes a double-headed arrow, drag the split bar on the worksheet where you want to split the windows.
3. You can also use the Split command on the View tab, Window group.

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1. Double-click the split bar.

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