The Best Office Productivity Tools Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by Kutools for Excel,with more thanģ00 handy Excel functions, enhance your working efficiency and save your working time. If you have Kutools for Excel, you can quickly convert the cell reference as you need by the Convert Refers utility. With Shortcut of F4, you only can change one cell reference at once time, if there are multiple cell formulas need to change as below screenshot shown, how can you quickly handle it?

To change the cell references from relative to absolute, you just need to select the cell and go to the formula bar, and place cursor at the cell reference you want to change, and press F4 key to switch cell reference. For stopping this changing, you need to add $ to the cell reference and change the relative reference to absolute reference. For example, you apply the formula is =A1+B1 in Cell C1, and it will change to F12+G12 as you copy it to the Cell H12. In default, the cell references are relative, such as A1, and if the formula you use contains relative reference, the cell references will change when you copy it from one cell to another. To lock multiple columns, select the column to the right of the last column you want frozen, choose the View tab, and then click Freeze Panes.How to quickly add $ into Excel formulas? To lock multiple rows (starting with row 1), select the row below the last row you want frozen, choose the View tab, and then click Freeze Panes. You will want your cursor to be below the row(s) you want to freeze and to the right of any column(s) you want to freeze. To lock more than one row or column, or to lock both rows and columns at the same time, choose the View tab, and then click Freeze Panes. To lock one column only, choose the View tab, and then click Freeze First Column. To lock one row only, choose the View tab, and then click Freeze Top Row. If you want to freeze both rows and columns, you need to freeze them at the same time.

For example, if you freeze row 1 and then decide to freeze column A, row 1 will no longer be frozen. You can choose to freeze just the top row of your worksheet, just the left column of your worksheet, or multiple rows and columns simultaneously. To cancel cell editing mode, press Enter or Esc. The Freeze Panes command is not available when you're in cell editing mode (that is, you're entering a formula or data in a cell) or when a worksheet is protected. You cannot freeze rows and columns in the middle of the worksheet.

You can freeze only rows at the top and columns on the left side of the worksheet. Freeze rows or columnsīefore you choose to freeze rows or columns in a worksheet, it’s important to consider the following: Note: You cannot freeze panes and split panes at the same time.

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