Skip to main content

How to hide rows based on cell color in Excel?

doc hide rows by color 1

In Excel worksheet, I have a list of cells which have many different colors, now, I need to hide all light blue colored rows as following screenshot shown, how could you deal with this task in Excel quickly and easily?

Hide rows based on cell color with VBA code

Hide rows based on cell color with Kutools for Excel


Hide rows based on cell color with VBA code

To hide rows based on a specific background color, the following VBA code may help you, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, then it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Hide rows based on cell color:

Sub Hidebycolor()
'Updateby Extendoffice
    Dim xRg As Range
    Dim xTxt As String
    Dim xCell As Range
    Dim I As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    If ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Count > 1 Then
      xTxt = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Columns(1).AddressLocal
    Else
      xTxt = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns(1).AddressLocal
    End If
LInput:
    Set xRg = Application.InputBox("Range:", "Kutools for Excel", xTxt, , , , , 8)
    If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
    If xRg.Areas.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox "does not support multiple selections", vbInformation, "Kutools for Excel"
        GoTo LInput
    End If
    If xRg.Columns.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox "the selection is not more than 1 column", vbInformation, "Kutools for Excel"
        GoTo LInput
    End If
    On Error Resume Next
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    For I = 1 To xRg.Count
        If xRg.Range("A" & I).Interior.ColorIndex = 20 Then
            xRg.Range("A" & I).EntireRow.Hidden = True
        End If
    Next 'i
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a prompt box is popped out to remind you to select the cells that you want to use, see screenshot:

doc hide rows by color 2

4. And then click OK button, all the light blue colored cells have been hidden at once, see screenshot:

doc hide rows by color 1

Notes:

1. In the above code, the number 20 within this script If xRg.Range("A" & I).Interior.ColorIndex = 20 Then is the color index number, you can change it as you need.

2. If you are not sure the color index number, you should apply the following code to get the color index which you want to know:

Function GetColor(r As Range) As Integer
GetColor = r.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function

And then enter the formula: =GetColor(A2) to return the specific color index number of the background in cell A2, you change A2 to others as you need.


Hide rows based on cell color with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel, with its Select Cells with Format utility, you can select the specific colored cells first, and then hide them at once.

Kutools for Excel : with more than 300 handy Excel add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 30 days. 

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Click Kutools > Select > Select Cells with Format, see screenshot:

2. In the Select Cells with Format dialog box, do the below operations:

(1.) Click doc hide rows by color 5button to select the data range that you want to use;

(2.) Then click Choose Format From Cell button to select the specific colored cell that you want to hide rows based on;

(3.) All attributes of the specific cell have been listed into the list box, please just check Background Color under the Fill section.

doc hide rows by color 4

3. Then click Ok button, all cells with the specific color have been selected at once, and then click Home > Format > Hide & Unhide > Hide Rows, see screenshot:

doc hide rows by color 6

4. And then the selected cells with the specific color are hidden, see screenshot:

doc hide rows by color 7

Click Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!


Demo: Hide rows based on cell color with Kutools for Excel

Kutools for Excel: with more than 300 handy Excel add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 30 days. Download and free trial Now!

Best Office Productivity Tools

🤖 Kutools AI Aide: Revolutionize data analysis based on: Intelligent Execution   |  Generate Code  |  Create Custom Formulas  |  Analyze Data and Generate Charts  |  Invoke Kutools Functions…
Popular Features: Find, Highlight or Identify Duplicates   |  Delete Blank Rows   |  Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data   |   Round without Formula ...
Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup    Multiple Value VLookup  |   VLookup Across Multiple Sheets   |   Fuzzy Lookup ....
Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List   |  Dependent Drop Down List   |  Multi-select Drop Down List ....
Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns  |  Move Columns  |  Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns  |  Compare Ranges & Columns ...
Featured Features: Grid Focus   |  Design View   |   Big Formula Bar    Workbook & Sheet Manager   |  Resource Library (Auto Text)   |  Date Picker   |  Combine Worksheets   |  Encrypt/Decrypt Cells    Send Emails by List   |  Super Filter   |   Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
Top 15 Toolsets12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...)   |   50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...)   |   40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...)   |   19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...)   |   12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...)   |   7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...)   |   ... and more

Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time.  Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...

Description


Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

  • Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
  • Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
  • Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
Comments (2)
No ratings yet. Be the first to rate!
This comment was minimized by the moderator on the site
Is it possible to use the code with conditional formatting? I tried the code but it only worked on standardly colored cells, not on those which got the color from a conditional formatting.
In my case, the rows should be hidden when the cell in column C is gray (colorindex = 15). But the row should be shown again, when the cell changes color to white again. Is this possible?
Thanks!
This comment was minimized by the moderator on the site
Thank you!!! I came across the macro you wrote above and had 1000s of rows to hide based on one color... your macro and directions worked wonderfully! I appreciate your help!
There are no comments posted here yet
Please leave your comments in English
Posting as Guest
Rate this post:
0   Characters
Suggested Locations