What is anchoring in Excel?

Anchoring is probably the most used shortcut in Excel. By pressing F4, you can select different options of anchoring. It means locking the cells inside the formulas from different dimensions.

What is F4 in Excel?

When you are typing your formula, after you type a cell reference – press the F4 key. Excel automatically makes the cell reference absolute! By continuing to press F4, Excel will cycle through all of the absolute reference possibilities.

What does a $5 mean in Excel?

Similarly, $5 means “wherever you copy and paste this formula to, this reference will always refer to row 5”. Here’s an example of how this might work. Suppose you have the following formula: =$A5*B10.

How do you anchor rows in Excel?

To freeze rows:

Select the row below the row(s) you want to freeze. In our example, we want to freeze rows 1 and 2, so we’ll select row 3.
Click the View tab on the Ribbon.
Select the Freeze Panes command, then choose Freeze Panes from the drop-down menu.
The rows will be frozen in place, as indicated by the gray line.

How do I sort excel and keep rows together?

To do this, use Excel’s Freeze Panes function. If you want to freeze just one row, one column or both, click the View tab, then Freeze Panes. Click either Freeze First Column or Freeze First Row to freeze the appropriate section of your data.

How do I highlight a row in Excel while scrolling?

Highlight the Active Row and Column in Excel

Select the data set in which you to highlight the active row/column.
Go to the Home tab.
Click on Conditional Formatting and then click on New Rule.
In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, select “Use a formula to determine which cells to format”.

How do I keep the header rows when scrolling in Excel?

To keep the column headers viewing means to freeze the top row of the worksheet.

Enable the worksheet you need to keep column header viewing, and click View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Top Row.
If you want to unfreeze the column headers, just click View > Freeze Panes > Unfreeze Panes.