Excel Why is Freeze Panes greyed out?

Hi GeneWaugh! Thank you for writing to the Microsoft Answer Community Forum, I am Shakiru, an independent advisor and a user like you, and I am glad to be helping you out today. May I confirm the following: 1. When you open a new workbook is the Freeze Pane grey out? 2. Are you working on the Spreadsheet right now, that is editing or using the formula bar? Try this: 1. Save your Work and close the Application> open the Excel file again: check if the Freeze pane is still ON 2. Copy the entire sheet to another Workbook and see if the Freeze pane is not grey out 3. Unprotect the Sheet and check if the Freeze pane is not grey out 4. Restart the PC, this also works. Kind Regards, Shakiru Please, remember to give back to the community. Help the next person with this problem by indicating if this conversation was helpful. Thank you

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SPEEDY REPLY!! I will go back to the spreadsheet with your suggestions---but one thing that I have come across since I posted is the possibility that in Excel, you cannot use both headers/footers AND freeze pane on the same file...I need to keep digging!!

Again, Thanks!

Hi GeneWaugh! You are very much welcome! Kind Regards, Shakiru