Quickly set scroll area in Excel 2007/2010

If you have a worksheet with too many columns and rows, you may want to hide all rows and columns except those in a specific range. By doing this, you can easily stay focus on the actual data you need to deal with, or prevent moving around in the worksheet. With this Set Scroll Area tool of Kutools for Excel, you can:

Quickly set a scrolling area of data and the other area will be invisible. Demo

Note: "Set Scroll Area" supports one level Undo. You can press Undo (or Ctrl+Z) immediately to restore the operation.

Click "Kutools">>"Show / Hide">>"Set Scroll Area" See screenshots (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).


Fig. 1 Set Scroll Area		Fig. 2 Set Scroll dialog box

Usage:

Select the range from “Scroll Area Range”.
Click “OK” will hide the unselected range.

Notes:

You can select entire rows or columns for setting scroll area, but a scroll area cannot consist of multiple noncontiguous ranges.
You can quickly remove the scroll area by applying the "Unhide All Ranges" from "Show / Hide".
You can also manually remove it from: Click the "select all" button, located at the intersection of the row and column headers; Right click any row number and choose "Unhide" to unhide all rows; Right click any column letter and choose "Unhide" to unhide all columns.

See Set Scroll Area feature demo (Video 1).

Video 1. Set Scroll Area feature demo.