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Hi there, I'm trying to freeze the top row in Excel from PAD. Tried various ways to send ALT + W + F + R keystrokes to Excel without success. What's the right way to do that? Any help would be appreciated!

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @sdfjlkfs

It is working for me

You can send key to specific cell, here i am sending key to A1 cell.

Hope it helps 🙂
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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @sdfjlkfs

I would recommend running vbs script as well to freeze first row

Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("%NewVar2%")

'Activate the first sheet
Set objWorksheet = objWorkbook.Sheets(1)
objWorksheet.Activate

'Freeze the first row
objExcel.ActiveWindow.SplitRow = 1
objExcel.ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True

'Save the changes and close the workbook
objWorkbook.Save
objWorkbook.Close

'Quit Excel
objExcel.Quit

'Set objects to nothing
Set objWorksheet = Nothing
Set objWorkbook = Nothing
Set objExcel = Nothing

Here %NewVar2% is a variable passed from power automate flow which is the file path of excel file 🙂

Hope it helps 🙂

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sdfjlkfs 16 on at

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Thank you Nived! It works 😉

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