Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Positioning a Column on the Screen.
Riek encountered a problem while developing a macro that sets up the screen for user input. Columns A:G always need to stay on the screen, so his macro freezes those columns. He then issues a command to move to column Z to start input. This places columns T:Z to the right of the frozen columns A:G. What Riek really wants is for columns Z:AF to appear to the right of A:G, but he doesn't know how to accomplish that.
There are several ways that the desired results can be achieved. The first is to simply move "past" the desired target, and then move back to it, as in the following macro:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub GotoCol1()
With Application
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = False
Range("H1").Select
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True
.Goto Range("IV1")
.Goto Range("Z1")
End With
End Sub
The important code lines are those that use the Goto method. The first jump is to the last cell of the first row, and the second jump moves back to the true target, Z1. By moving in this way, column Z ends up just to the right of the frozen range, A:G.
While this works just fine, a better solution would be to use the Scroll parameter with the Goto method. Consider the following example:
Sub GotoCol2()
With Application
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = False
Range("H1").Select
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True
.Goto Reference:=Range("Z1"), Scroll:=True
End With
End Sub
The Scroll parameter is optional with the Goto method; it defaults to False. If you set it to True, then Goto scrolls through the window so that the upper-left corner of the target range (Z1) appears in the upper-left corner of the window.
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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2464) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Excel (Excel 2007 and later) here: Positioning a Column on the Screen.
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