Quickly hide or unhide workbooks and worksheets in Excel 2007/2010
To hide or unhide workbooks and worksheets in Excel 2007/2010, it’s quite useful to prevent others from seeing the data in Excel, or reduce the number of worksheet tabs. Normally, you have to select multiple worksheets before changing the hidden status of them, if you want to hide multiple worksheets at one time in Excel, and the worse thing is Excel does not support you to quickly unhide all hidden worksheets, you have to get it done one by one. That’s painful. But with this Interactive Hide / Unhide tool of Kutools for Excel, you can:
- Hide or unhide all open workbooks with one click.
- Quickly hide or unhide any open workbooks.
- Hide or unhide all worksheets (except the selected one) with one click.
- Quickly hide or unhide any worksheets in any open workbooks. Demo
Note: It's all done interactively, you can see the effect immediately.
Click "Kutools">>"Show / Hide">>"Interactive Hide / Unhide". See screenshots (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).
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| Fig. 1 Interactive Hide / Unhide | Fig. 2 Interactive Hide / Unhide dialog box |
Usage:
- The checked workbook or worksheets will be unhidden. Conversely, the unchecked workbook or worksheets will be hidden.
Notes:
- “Hide all” button will hide all workbooks; “Unhide all” button will unhide all workbooks.
- “Hide all but” button will hide all the inactive worksheets; “Unhide all” button will unhide all worksheets.
- You cannot hide all worksheets in a workbook. But you can hide an entire workbook.
- If you checked "View Workbook" option, you will active the workbook when you click on workbook in Interactive Hide / Unhide dialog box.
See Interactive Hide / Unhide feature demo (Video 1).
Video 1. Interactive Hide / Unhide feature demo.


