Steven has a worksheet with many rows and columns of data. He has frozen the first row and column by making cell B2 active and then freezing panes. This works as he wants it to. He can even save and close the workbook, and the panes are still frozen when he reopens the workbook. However, if Steven opens a new window for the workbook (View | Window | New Window), the new window does not have frozen panes. As he has frozen panes on many worksheets in this workbook, he has to be very careful about which window he closes first. If he closes the original window first, when he saves the workbook it saves all the unfrozen worksheets. Steven wonders if there is a way to get the new window to retain the frozen panes settings?
There is no setting in Excel that will handle what Steven needs to happen. The reason that the frozen panes are not saved is because FreezePanes (along with Zoom, Split, and a few other settings) are properties of windows, not of worksheets or workbooks. When a new window is created, the properties are not inherited from the original window.
You can, however, get around this behavior (and solve Steven's problem) by using a macro to do the setup for you. A very short approach is to forego using the ribbon tools to create your new window. Instead, add this macro to the QAT and use it to do the window creation:
Sub CreateNewWindow1() Dim rPane As Range Set rPane = ActiveWindow.VisibleRange(1) ActiveWindow.NewWindow ActiveSheet.Range("B2").Select ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True End Sub
The macro creates a new window, sets the visible cells equal to what is shown in the original window, selects cell B2 in the new window, and then freezes the panes.
This simple of an approach may not work, however, if your "pane freezing" needs are more varied. For instance, you may want a way to create a new window and have it match whatever panes were in the window that was active when you created the new window.
The following macro checks to see if the current window has a a fozen pane. If it does, then it figures out where it is frozen and uses that to set the frozen panes in a new window. If there are no frozen panes, then a new window is created anyway, and nothing there is frozen. In either case, the same cell is selected in the new window as was selected in the original.
Sub CreateNewWindow2() Dim iRow As Integer Dim iCol As Integer Dim rOldPos As Range iRow = 0 iCol = 0 If ActiveWindow.FreezePanes Then iRow = ActiveWindow.ScrollRow iCol = ActiveWindow.ScrollColumn End If Set rOldPos = ActiveCell ActiveWindow.NewWindow If (iRow > 0) And (iCol > 0) Then Cells(iRow, iCol).Select ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True End If rOldPos.Select End Sub
This code, again, could be used for creating any new windows you want. They accomplish what Steven needed done because they copy the frozen pane settings from the active window to the newly created window.
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2015-06-09 18:27:35
Lou
This works fine on non-Table tabs except if you have filtered data that tricks your code into thinking the filtered row is the one that is displayed. This is a real problem if you have more than a screen worth's of data filtered out and then you do a Show All on the new window. The whole screen is frozen!
Is this something can be fixed?
I tried various ways in VBA with Freeze Panes but if the first record after the title cells are filtered out, the wrong row is selected to be frozen. This is probably due to the Freeze Panes actions only working with visible cells.
Also I added a small modification to your code to capture the Window zoom and apply it to the new window as such:
Sub CreateNewWindow()
Dim iRow, iCol, iZoom As Integer
Dim rOldPos As Range
iRow = 0: iCol = 0
If ActiveWindow.FreezePanes Then
iRow = ActiveWindow.ScrollRow
iCol = ActiveWindow.ScrollColumn
End If
Set rOldPos = ActiveCell
iZoom = ActiveWindow.Zoom
ActiveWindow.NewWindow
If (iRow > 0) And (iCol > 0) Then
Cells(iRow, iCol).Select
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True
End If
rOldPos.Select
ActiveWindow.Zoom = iZoom
End Sub
2015-02-03 09:42:43
Willy Vanhaelen
@Suzan
This works fine except when your workbook contains a table. Then Custom Views is grayed out and cannot be used.
2015-02-02 16:22:31
Susan
There is another way you can handle this without using macros. Before creating a new window you can click on view then custom views. From there you can add a view and name it what ever you want. Then as soon as you create the new window click on custom view again and click on the new view you created.
2015-02-02 10:29:44
Kevin
I modified the code to apply identical frozen pane and window zoom properties to every sheet in the new window.
Sub CreateNewWindow()
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim rOldPos As Range
Dim iZoom As Integer
Dim wOldWindow As Window
Dim wNewWindow As Window
Dim sSheet As Worksheet
Dim sOldSheet As Worksheet
Set wOldWindow = ActiveWindow
Set sOldSheet = ActiveSheet
wOldWindow.NewWindow
Set wNewWindow = ActiveWindow
For Each sSheet In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
wOldWindow.Activate
sSheet.Select
Set rOldPos = ActiveCell
iRow = 0
iCol = 0
If wOldWindow.FreezePanes Then
iRow = ActiveWindow.ScrollRow
iCol = ActiveWindow.ScrollColumn
End If
iZoom = wOldWindow.Zoom
wNewWindow.Activate
sSheet.Select
If (iRow > 0) And (iCol > 0) Then
Cells(iRow, iCol).Select
wNewWindow.FreezePanes = True
End If
wNewWindow.Zoom = iZoom
rOldPos.Select
Next sSheet
wOldWindow.Activate
sOldSheet.Select
wNewWindow.Activate
sOldSheet.Select
Set wOldWindow = Nothing
Set wNewWindow = Nothing
Set rOldPos = Nothing
End Sub
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