How to show or hide all objects (pictures/charts/shapes/comments) in Excel?
Excel allows you to enhance your spreadsheets with various objects like pictures, charts, shapes, and comments. However, there are times when these elements can clutter your workspace. Whether you need to streamline your view or focus on specific data, you can quickly hide these objects and just as easily show them again when needed. This guide will introduce some efficient tricks to manage the visibility of all objects in Excel, helping you maintain a tidy and organized spreadsheet.
Show or hide all objects in the active worksheet with the Selection Pane
Show or hide all objects in all worksheets with Kutools for Exce
Show or hide all objects in the active worksheet with VBA code
Show or hide all objects in the active worksheet with the Selection Pane
The Selection Pane in Excel enables you to hide or show all or partial objects in an active worksheet.
1. Click Home > Find & Select > Selection Pane to open the Selection Pane. See screenshot:
2. After opening the Selection and Visibility task pane, all of the objects in the active sheet have been listed in the pane. If you want to hide all of the objects, you just need to click the Hide All button at the bottom of the task pane, you can also click the Show All button to display the objects vise verse.
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Note: If you just only want to hide part of the objects, you can click its eye check box to remove the eye icon; to redisplay a hidden object, simply click its empty eye check box to put the eye icon back into it.
Show or hide all objects in all worksheets with Kutools for Excel
With Kutools for Excel’s View Options tool, you can quickly hide or show all of the objects in all worksheets at once.
When you have installed Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Click Kutools > View > View Options, see screenshot:
2. In the View Options dialog box, under the Objects section, click Hide all or Show all to hide or display all of the objects in the whole workbook.
The View Options tool makes it possible to show or hide most Microsoft Excel settings quickly, such as Inner Tabs, Formula Bar, Status Bar, Windows in Taskbar, Gridlines, Page Breaks, Display Zeros, Vertical Scrollbar, Horizontal Scrollbar, Sheet Tabs, … etc. It will save your time in looking for these settings when you need to show or hide them.
Click View Options to learn more about this feature.
Show or hide all objects in the active worksheet with VBA code
The following short VBA code also can help you to show or hide all of the objects in the active worksheet.
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
Hide all objects VBA code:
Sub HideEachShape()
'Updated by Extendoffice 2024/07/23
Dim sObject As Shape
For Each sObject In ActiveSheet.Shapes
sObject.Visible = False
Next
End Sub
Display all objects VBA code:
Sub ShowEachShape()
'Updated by Extendoffice 2024/07/23
Dim sObject As Shape
For Each sObject In ActiveSheet.Shapes
sObject.Visible = True
Next
End Sub
3. Then press the F5 key to run the code, all of the objects in the active worksheet will be hidden or displayed.
Show or hide all objects in all worksheets with Kutools for Excel
With Kutools for Excel’s View Options tool, you can quickly hide or show all of the objects in all worksheets at once.
When you have installed Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Click Kutools > View > View Options, see screenshot:
2. In the View Options dialog box, under the Objects section, click Hide all or Show all to hide or display all of the objects in the whole workbook.
The View Options tool makes it possible to show or hide most Microsoft Excel settings quickly, such as Inner Tabs, Formula Bar, Status Bar, Windows in Taskbar, Gridlines, Page Breaks, Display Zeros, Vertical Scrollbar, Horizontal Scrollbar, Sheet Tabs, … etc. It will save your time in looking for these settings when you need to show or hide them.
Click View Options to learn more about this feature.
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