you probably have your cell selection on A1 when you freeze this makes it
feeze in the middle of the screen
you need to have a cell selected below or to the right of the area you want
to freeze

"Sandy63" wrote:

I am learning how to use excel properly and am trying to freeze panes. When i
tried to do it the other day i did it with no problems, today i am trying to
do it and every time i click on freeze pane i get a line down the middle and
a line accross the middle and that is were it freezes. How do i stop this
please.