This wikiHow teaches you how to freeze a row in a spreadsheet using the Google Sheets app. Freezing a row is helpful when you want a certain row to act as a header in a column.

Steps

  1. It’s the green icon with a white spreadsheet outline. You’ll typically find it on the home screen or in the app drawer.
  2. It’s in the orange circle at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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  3. This opens a blank spreadsheet. The remaining steps will provide an example so you don’t have to test the freezing function on your live spreadsheet.
  4. This is just data so you can test freezing the row. In our example, this is the row that will be frozen.
  5. Now you have enough sample data to freeze a row.
  6. It’s at the bottom of the screen. A menu will appear.
  7. This tells Sheets to freeze the first row (the one that says “header” in the example). A line will now appear beneath this row, splitting it from the rows beneath.
    • To freeze additional rows, tapagain. If you increase the number to 2, the first 2 rows will be frozen.
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