You might have been confused by Dave's primary instruction of selecting A1.

He mentioned A1 strictly as a precautionary measure to make sure that your
Column A and Row1 were *visible* on your screen (note his reference to this
fact).
If either of them weren't visible, and you invoked Freeze Panes, you could
have hidden some cells from displaying on your screen, where the *only* way
to unhide them would be to "Unfreeze" Panes.
And believe me, many people don't realize that fact for hours or days,
trying to bring *back* those hidden cells.

Check out this old post that describes this:

http://tinyurl.com/2qdzt

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HTH,

RD

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i spoke too soon - by clicking on B1 and 'freeze' i get the left column
(A) to freeze, but now the upper/left-to-right column (1) i cannot get
to freeze as well. in other words, i'd like for both to be frozen at
the same time.

any advice?