Split Pane? Freeze Pane?

Question

Is there a Numbers equivalent to Excel's Split Pane and Freeze Pane commands? ... so, for example, the header row is always visible and scrolling happens to the rows below the header.

Answer 1

rowster,
Would you like to try the following? It's quicker to do than to write it all out, so don't be put off by my lengthy step-by-step instructions.
In Numbers, deselect Show or Hide Print View at the extreme bottom of the window, to hide the Print View page boundaries. Create your blank spreadsheet Table either from scratch or using a Template, and after clicking on the Table to expose the Row and Column Reference Numbers and Letters, drag to the right the 'Handle' at the right hand end of the row of Column Reference Letters which lie along the top of the Table; drag to the right as far as you need to go to add sufficient columns for your needs; the table will scroll to the left if you go off the right hand edge of the window. Do the same to increase the number of Rows by dragging downwards the Handle below the bottom of the column of Row Reference Numbers which are shown down the left hand edge of the Table.
Enter your data into the Table with any Formatting you require, and make sure you specify a Header and Footer Row and Column in the Table Inspector pane. To do this, select the Table by clicking on it, then click on the Inspector Icon on the Toolbar to open the Inspector pane, and select the Table Icon at the top of the pane. If you want to minimise the size of the Table, auto-adjust the width of the columns and the height of the rows to 'fit' these to the space required by each data. You can also consider reducing the View magnification if this doesn't reduce readability too much.
With the Table selected, select your paper sheet size and orienatation (Portrait or Landscape) in the Document Inspector and Sheet Inspector panes respectively and also set whether you want successive pages to lie horizontally or vertically adjacent to each other, then click on the Table Icon in the Inspector pane. At the very bottom of the Table Inspector pane, make sure that 'Repeat header cells on each page' is checked.
Now re-select Show or Hide Print View at the extreme bottom of the window; this will break up the window contents into individual pages corresponding to what you would get if you were to print them. Using the scroll bars at the side and bottom of the window, you can now scroll around the spreadsheet and as you move from one page to another, the Header and Footer Row and Column will always be visible on each page, allowing you to relate data in any cell to these.
To me, this is the next best thing to Excel's Freeze Panes feature, and in some situations, I think it's preferable.
The only feature omission is that whilst the row of Column Reference Letters is always visible on every page if the Table is 'selected' by clicking on it, the column of Row Reference Numbers is only visible on the left-most pages; I've used the 'Provide Numbers feedback' feature to request Apple to repeat the column of Row Reference numbers on every page alongside the left-hand Header column.
Hope this helps,
Ian Mathieson.
U.K.