Help with MS Excel 2003 and displaying columns

I am trying to make a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel 2003, but I only want it to show three columns. For example in this picture there are columns C through infinity, and I only want it to show columns C, D, and E, and nothing else. Does anyone know how to do this? I've tried to keep hiding more and more columns, but after the Z column it goes columns AA, AB, AC, and it just won't stop. I've been able to select all columns using Ctrl+A and hiding all of them, but now I have nothing left to work with. Does anyone know how to do this? Why are Microsoft's products such a pain in the ass to deal with... Also does anyone know how I can renamed the columns instead of it being named C, D, E, etc, and if there is a way to remove the number by each of the rows that lists it as row 1, row 2, row 3, etc?



Jam it back in, in the dark.

To show just three columns:

1) Highlight the 4th by clicking on the column header.
2) Hold down Ctrl+Shift and press the Right Arrow.
3) Right click on a column header and choose Hide.

As far as I know there is no way to rename column or row headers. You can turn them off completely under Tools->Options->View->Row & Column Headers.

To be honest, I'm not even sure why they would put that in. You can't print the headers, which is why column data names any row descriptors are supposed to go directly in the spreadsheet. That's pretty common spreadsheet functionality.

There's nowhere I can't reach.