Hide or show worksheets or workbooks

Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2007

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You can hide any worksheet in a workbook to remove it from view. You can also hide the workbook window of a workbook to remove it from your workspace. The data in hidden worksheets and workbook windows is not visible, but it can still be referenced from other worksheets and workbooks. You can display hidden worksheets or workbook windows as needed.

By default, all workbook windows of workbooks that you open are displayed on the taskbar, but you can hide or display them on the taskbar as needed.

What do you want to do?

• Hide a worksheet
• Display a hidden worksheet
• Hide a workbook window
• Display a hidden workbook window
• Hide or display workbook windows on the Windows taskbar

Hide a worksheet

1. Select the worksheets that you want to hide.

How to select worksheets

2. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click Format.

3. Under Visibility, click Hide & Unhide, and then click Hide Sheet.

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Display a hidden worksheet

1. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click Format.

2. Under Visibility, click Hide & Unhide, and then click Unhide Sheet.
3. In the Unhide sheet box, double-click the name of the hidden sheet that you want to display.

NOTE You can unhide only one worksheet at a time.

NOTE If worksheets are hidden by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code that assigns the property xlSheetVeryHidden, you cannot use the Unhide command to display those hidden sheets. If you are using a workbook that contains VBA macros and you encounter problems when working with hidden worksheets, contact the owner of the workbook for more information.

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Hide a workbook window

• On the View tab, in the Window group, click Hide.

NOTE When you exit Excel, you will be asked if you want to save changes to the hidden workbook window. Click Yes if you want the workbook window to be hidden the next time that you open the workbook.

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Display a hidden workbook window

1. On the View tab, in the Window group, click Unhide.

NOTE If Unhide is unavailable, the workbook does not contain hidden workbook windows.

2. Under Unhide workbook, double-click the workbook window that you want to display.

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Hide or display workbook windows on the Windows taskbar

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , click Excel Options, and then click the Advanced category.

2. Under Display, clear or select the Show all windows in the Taskbar check box.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/hide-or-display-worksheets-or-workbooks-HP001217033.aspx