Tips: If the Developer tab is not displayed in your ribbon, you can view this How to show/display developer tab in Excel 2007/2010/2013 Ribbon? article to show it. This setting will be invalid when you open the workbook next time. If you want to clear the scroll area lock, you just need to delete the range address from the ScrollArea Properties box in above step 2.ģ. The cell address you enter must be a contiguous range.Ģ. Then close the Properties box, and now, you will be restricted to click or scroll to the cells beyond the range you are specified in the Properties dialog.ġ. Then click Developer > Properties, in the Properties dialog box, enter the range address ( A1:M100) you need into the ScrollArea text box, see screenshot:ģ. Go to the worksheet that you want to lock the screen area.Ģ. Lock worksheet screen to prevent scrolling with Kutools for Excel by one clickĪctually, you can go to the Properties box to set the ScrollArea to your needed range address. Lock worksheet screen to prevent scrolling with VBA code Lock worksheet screen to prevent scrolling with setting the properties manually In Excel, how could you finish this job quickly and easily? Normally, you can scroll the scroll bar to any direction of the worksheet, but, sometimes, you need to block scrolling and keep the worksheet screen up to a certain area-A1:M100, for instance. How to lock screen to prevent scrolling in Excel worksheet?
