hi,
you can turn off excel row and columns headers by going
tools>options>view>uncheck row and column headers.
you can then put your own column headers in the first row and row headers in
the first column then place the curser in second column and second row and go
Window>freeze panes.
but in doing so, you would loose many built in excel function such as select
sheet, select row, select column, autofit row/column and others.
Regards
FSt1