How to quickly show active or selected sheets only in Excel?

If there are multiple sheets in your working workbook, and now you just want to show only the active or selected sheets and hide other sheets, how can you quickly handle it without hiding them one by one manually?

Show active sheet only with VBA

Show selected sheet(s) only with Kutools for Excel

Show active sheet only with VBA

Here is a VBA code can quickly hide all sheets except the active one.

1. Press Alt + F11 keys to display Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Then click Insert > Module and paste below VBA to the new Module window.

VBA: Show active sheet only

Sub Macro1()
'UpdatebyKutoolsforExcel20160409
    Dim xSht As Object
    For Each xSht In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
        If xSht.Name <> ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Name Then xSht.Visible = False
    Next
End Sub

3. Click Run button or press F5 key to execute VBA And now only active sheet are shown, others are hidden.

Show selected sheet(s) only with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel installed, you can quickly hide inactive sheets or unselected sheets with once click.

After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

Active a sheet or select sheets you want to show, then click Kutools > Show & Hide > Hide Unselected Sheets. See screenshot:

Now the unselected sheets are hidden.

Tip: If you want to show all sheets, you can click Kutools > Show & Hide > Unhide All Sheets. See screenshot:

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