How do I lock columns and rows in numbers?

I have a large spreadsheet and I want to scroll up, down, left and right without the need to go up and down to find the name of the column or row where the information goes into.
In Excel you lock a column or row just as easy but in numbers I have looked everywhere and don´t find an answer to this (otherwise) simple procedure.
Thanks tho anyone who can help me.

Hi Laura,
The commands you are looking for are "Freeze Header Rows" and "Freeze Header Columns", both found in the Table menu.
To use them, you must first convert the rows and columns you want to keep visible as Header Rows and Header Columns. You can define up to five of each. Rows must be at the top of the table and columns at the left, and multiple header rows/columns must be contiguous.
Be aware that the conversion is not (easily) reversable, and that multiple headers (and footer rows) tend to slow large tables significantly.
To convert an eligible row, hover the mouse over the row reference tab, then click the triangle when it appears. If the row is eligible for conversion (ie. if it is the top non-header row on the table, and is in the top five rows), you will see the option to "Convert to Header Row, seen below for row 2:.
Regards,
Barry

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Click on the Table's icon in the Sheets list. Press delete.
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--[SCRIPT transposeLive]
Enregistrer le script en tant qu'Application ou Progiciel : transposeLive].app
déplacer l'application créée dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Numbers et peut-être même le dossier Applications.
Merci à Scott Lindsey & Ed.Stockly du forum [email protected]
qui m'ont aidé à construire le code récupérant le bloc sélectionné.
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which helped me to build the code grabbing the selected range.
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(can't be in the source range)
menu Scripts > Numbers > transposeLive (Run the script one more time.
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Changes in the source one will be reflected.
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
19 janvier 2009
property theApp : "Numbers"
property sourceCell : missing value
property sourceTable : missing value
property sourceSheet : missing value
property nbRows : missing value
property nbColumns : missing value
--=====
on run
set firstPass to sourceCell = missing value
if firstPass then (*
Here we are in the first pass.
We grab infos about the source range *)
set {rName, sourceTable, sourceSheet, dName} to my getSelection()
if rName is missing value then error "No selected cells"
set twoNames to my decoupe(rName, ":")
if sourceTable does not start with "'" then set sourceTable to "'" & sourceTable & "'"
if sourceSheet does not start with "'" then set sourceSheet to "'" & sourceSheet & "'"
set sourceCell to item 1 of twoNames
set {colNum1, rowNum1} to my decipher(item 1 of twoNames)
if item 2 of twoNames = item 1 of twoNames then
set {colNum2, rowNum2} to {colNum1, rowNum1}
else
set {colNum2, rowNum2} to my decipher(item 2 of twoNames)
end if
set nbRows to rowNum2 + 1 - rowNum1
set nbColumns to colNum2 + 1 - colNum1
else --**************
Here we are in the second pass
We insert formulas grabbing the transposed cells *)
set deci to character 2 of (0.5 as text)
if deci is "." then
set delim to ","
else
set delim to ";"
end if
set p2lproj to my getLproj(theApp)
set OFFSET_loc to my getLocalizedFuncName(p2lproj, "OFFSET")
--set ADDRESS_loc to my getLocalizedFuncName(p2lproj, "ADDRESS")
--set INDIRECT_loc to my getLocalizedFuncName(p2lproj, "INDIRECT")
set {rName, tName, sName, dName} to my getSelection()
if rName is missing value then error "No selected cells"
set twoNames to my decoupe(rName, ":")
set {colNum1, rowNum1} to my decipher(item 1 of twoNames)
if item 2 of twoNames = item 1 of twoNames then
set {colNum2, rowNum2} to {colNum1, rowNum1}
else
set {colNum2, rowNum2} to my decipher(item 2 of twoNames)
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activate
tell document dName to tell sheet sName to tell table tName
set rowsCible to (get row count)
set rowsNeeded to rowsCible - 1 + nbColumns
if rowsNeeded > rowsCible then
repeat (rowsNeeded - rowsCible) times
add row below row rowsCible
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end if -- rowsNeeded
set columnsCible to (get column count)
set columnsNeeded to columnsCible - 1 + nbRows
if columnsNeeded > columnsCible then
repeat (columnsNeeded - columnsCible) times
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repeat with i from 1 to nbRows
repeat with j from 1 to nbColumns
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end tell -- Application
set sourceCell to missing value
set sourceTable to missing value
set sourceSheet to missing value
set nbRows to missing value
set nbColumns to missing value
end if
end run
--=====
on getSelection()
local mySelectedRanges, sheetRanges, thisRange, _, myRange, myTable, mySheet, myDoc, mySelection
tell application theApp
activate
tell document 1
set mySelectedRanges to selection range of every table of every sheet whose it is not missing value
repeat with sheetRanges in mySelectedRanges
try
count of sheetRanges
on error
set sheetRanges to {sheetRanges}
end try
repeat with thisRange in sheetRanges
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thisRange as text
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set {_, myRange, _, myTable, _, mySheet, _, myDoc} to my decoupe(errMsg, quote)
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return {myRange, myTable, mySheet, myDoc}
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end repeat -- thisRange
end repeat -- sheetRanges
end tell -- document 1
end tell -- application
return {missing value, missing value, missing value, missing value}
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--=====
on decipher(n)
local letters, colNum, rowNum
set letters to "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
if (character 2 of n) as text > "9" then
set colNum to (offset of (character 1 of n) in letters) * 64 + (offset of (character 2 of n) in letters)
set rowNum to (text 3 thru -1 of n) as integer
else
set colNum to offset of (character 1 of n) in letters
set rowNum to (text 2 thru -1 of n) as integer
end if
return {colNum, rowNum}
end decipher
--=====
on decoupe(t, d)
local l
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return l
end decoupe
--=====
on getLproj(a)
local lprojs, localId, lproj
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set localId to my getLocale(a, "http://support.apple.com/en_US/manuals/#iwork")
set localId to text (1 + (count of "http://support.apple.com/")) thru -1 of localId
set localId to text 1 thru ((offset of "/" in localId) - 1) of localId
set lproj to ""
repeat with i from 1 to count of lprojs
if localId is item 1 of item i of lprojs then
set lproj to item 2 of item i of lprojs
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if lproj = "" then error "A Frameworks file is missing !"
return (path to application support as text) & "iWork '09:Frameworks:SFTabular.framework:Versions:A:Resources:" & lproj
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--=====
on getLocale(a, x)
tell application a to return localized string x
end getLocale
--=====
on getLocalizedFuncName(f, x)
return localized string x from table "Localizable" in bundle file f
end getLocalizedFuncName
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 19 janvier 2009 18:57:48)

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