How to display or hide Row & Column Headers in Microsoft Excel?
By default, we can locate cells through worksheets with column heading at the top and row heading at the left. Sometimes, you may want to hide these headings. This article will talk about some tips for displaying or hiding headings in Microsoft Excel.
Display or hide Row & Column headings with checking or unchecking Headings option
Display or hide Row & Column headings with Excel Options function
Display or hide Row & Column headings with Kutools for Excel
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Display or hide Row & Column headings with checking or unchecking Headings option
With this method, you can quickly hide and display the Row & Column headings of the current worksheet. Do as follows:
1. Click View tab in the ribbon, and go to the Show group.
2. Then you will see the Headings option, check the Headings option to show Row & Column headings or uncheck it to hide the headings. See screenshots:
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Display or hide Row & Column headings with Excel Options function
With this Excel Options function, you can also display or hide Row & Column headings of a selected worksheet.
1. In Excel 2010/2013, click File button, or in Excel 2007, please click 
button.
2. Then click Options button, and in Excel Options dialog box, go to the Advanced category.
3. Scroll down to the Display options for this worksheet section. You can click the drop down list to choose the worksheet that you want to use. And then check or uncheck the Show row and column headers option according to your needs. See screenshot:
With the above two methods, you can only hide or display the headings for one worksheet, but if you want to show or hide the headings of all worksheets at once, how could you do?
Display or hide Row & Column headings with Kutools for Excel
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With Kutools for Excel’s Toggle Settings tool, you can quickly show or hide the headings of active worksheet or all worksheets.
1. Click Kutools > Show/Hide > Toggle Settings, see screenshot:
2. In the Toggle Settings dialog box, check or uncheck the Row & Column Headers option, if you check it, it will display the row and column headings immediately in active worksheet, and vice versa. And if you want to apply this operation to all worksheets, you can click Apply to all sheets button. See screenshot:
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