have some big Excel spreadsheets, 50 columns by 65525 rows (but
definitely not 65536), 45MByte. They are all very similar, just a few
formala tweaks different

On one of them, the top nine rows have become "invisible"

It is possible to navigate through all the cells involved with the
cursor keys- the formula bar. name box bar etc all function correctly
and show cell contents etc. They are just not visible
The missing rows are not hidden
The missing rows are not filtered
The missing rows have a standard row height
The missing rows are not locked

If I move the cursor from row 10 towards the top of the sheet, its
shape changes to a bulky solid cross, the same cursor one gets when
one is outside the range (it wouldn't do this if the rows were hidden
or short??)

I can Select All, Copy and Paste to a brand new workbook and the
missing rows will appear. If I Select All on THAT workbook, Copy and
Paste back to the original workbook, they go AWOL again.

I have googled on this problem and can't seem to find the right
keywords to track down whether any body else has reported it. There
were various hints for similar problems, invovlving tricky mouse
manipulation (as above), but these don't work in my case.

I have had this problem before with other smaller spreadsheets and the
only solution has been to recreate the spreadsheet by pasting into a
brand new one. This I am reluctant to do with a 45MByte workbook.

Any suggestions?

Geoff Lambert

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:45:44 GMT, (Geoff
Lambert) wrote:

blah blah blah

Well, they were frozen, weren't they? The problem goes away if yoou
unfreeze.

Question is, how come the freezing made them invisible? That's more or
less the opposite of what freezing normally does.... normally it makes
them permantly visible so they remain fixed when scrolling.

Is this a feature, what kind of key-stroke or operator action invokes
it. I cannt replicazte it anymore

Geoff Lambert

normally it makes them permantly visible so they remain fixed when
scrolling.

Right. But what is "them"? Scroll a sheet so that cell A10 is in the top
left corner of the worksheet window. Select A15 and do a Window, Freeze
Panes. "Them" is 10-14, the rows from the first on screen to the freeze
row. You can cursor to 1-9 but they will not scroll into view. That is
what you want, right?

But if you did a freeze at A10, the first row on screen, there would be no
"them" since there are no rows between the freeze row and the top row on
screen.


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Jim
"Geoff Lambert" wrote in message
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| On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:45:44 GMT, (Geoff
| Lambert) wrote:
|
| blah blah blah
|
| Well, they were frozen, weren't they? The problem goes away if yoou
| unfreeze.
|
| Question is, how come the freezing made them invisible? That's more or
| less the opposite of what freezing normally does.... normally it makes
| them permantly visible so they remain fixed when scrolling.
|
| Is this a feature, what kind of key-stroke or operator action invokes
| it. I cannt replicazte it anymore
|
| Geoff Lambert
|
|