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Its working interface resembles a spreadsheet with rows and columns stretching endlessly. To concentrate and limit your workspace without unintentionally shifting to other areas, you can set restrictions in Excel. In this article, Mytour will guide you through two different methods of restricting your workspace in Excel.
1. Controlling Scroll Bars in Excel's Workspace
In the normal state, you can extend your scroll bar to traverse a vast distance. However, by setting limits, you can confine your view to the selected workspace only.
To limit your workspace in Excel, follow these steps.
Open the working sheet you want to restrict in Excel. Right-click on the currently open sheet and select View Code from the displayed options.
The Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window will appear. Look to the left, under ScrollArea, there is a blank space for you to input information. Enter the desired workspace range using a matrix based on row and column names.
After completing the input, the table will automatically switch to a fixed column-row matrix. Now you can close this window and try scrolling outside the main Excel interface.
As you can observe, scrolling to the end won't surpass the selected data array or workspace you've chosen.
2. Concealing Areas Beyond Your Workspace
Apart from the scrollbar limitation mentioned earlier, you can also hide rows and columns outside your Excel workspace using the following steps.
First, click the mouse to select the column adjacent to the right side of your workspace.
Next, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift → to highlight the entire column of data to the right of your workspace.
Once all columns are highlighted, right-click on the selected area and choose Hide. This way, you can conceal all the selected data columns.
Continue this working method with the rows below the limited workspace. Select the row just beneath the desired workspace and highlight it.
Then, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift ↓ to highlight the rows below the limited workspace.
Then, right-click again and choose Hide to conceal the highlighted rows.
As a result, you've successfully hidden all the data outside your workspace.
To reveal the hidden workspace, select the column or row adjacent to it, right-click, and choose Unhide.
This concludes the guide on Restricting Workspace in Excel by Mytour. We hope that through this article, you've gained insights into our methods of limiting the workspace in Excel. Wishing you success, and see you in other articles on the page.
