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In Word, freeze panes like Excel?

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I am re-posting this as the person who answered thought I wanted to know how to do this in Excel. I am hoping there is a way to make WORD do what Excel does so handily:

Is their a tidier way to freeze panes in Word than the "Window-Split"?

I have a long table in Microsoft Word 2000 that is not printed, only viewed. (Has hyperlinks to other documents.) The top row of cells is the header row, and I would like it to be visible even when I scroll down, or right, or left. Window-split takes so much screen space and can scroll differently (does not stay syncronized with the other window) so that the headings are over the wrong columns.
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Click in the first row of the table. Go to Table, Table Properties, Row and tick Repeat as Header Row at top of each page. click OK.

Now ensure Word is in Print Layout View so that it shows the pages and the row will be repeated.

Although this is intended as a print option it does the job.
 
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Cheerio, I have all ready done this and it is not working. I have the view in Print Layout view, and the header row has the "Repeat as header row at top of each page" box checked. When I scroll down, the header row scrolls up,out of sight.
Maybe I am missing something, that's why I posted the question.
Any ides what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
 
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It should repeat at the top of each new page. If a page holds more data than a screenfull you will lose the header till you break the page.

As you do not print the data you could change the page size to something that fits on your screen. (File, Page Set Up, Paper Size, Custom Size).
 
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I am assuming you are asking about this on just viewing the screen as opposed to printing out on paper. Gilliam, Cherrio's solution works however it is only on hardcopy. Word doesn't have a freeze pane option the way Excel does for viewing information on the page. Splitting the window as in your original post is the only option I am aware.

 
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Cheerio, I see that changing the paper size makes it work, sorta, from the standpoint that as you are paging through the document, the header is "somewhere" on the screen, but it scrolls up and down with the rest of the document. Like Word's "Split" function, it wastes a lot of screen space and doesn't allow the data to scroll up while the header stays at the top of the page.

Tgalownia, thank you for confirming what I had feard to be true: Word won't do what Excel does.

Thank you both for your input. Learning what software won't do is as important as learning what it will do!
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