How to expand or close all group rows and columns in Excel?
In Excel, you may use the Group utility to group data as you need. But if there are many groups in the sheet, how can you quickly expand or close all groups without clicking manually? Here, I introduce VBA codes to easily solve this job in Excel.
Expand or close all groups rows and columns in Excel
Expand or close all groups rows and columns in Excel
Here are some VBA codes can help you to expand or close all groups at once.
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, copy and paste blow code to the new Module。
VBA: Expand all groups
Sub ExpandAll() 'UpdatebyExtendoffice20181031 Dim I As Integer Dim J As Integer On Error Resume Next For I = 1 To 100 Worksheets("Sheet1").Outline.ShowLevels rowLevels:=I If Err.Number <> 0 Then Err.Clear Exit For End If Next I For J = 1 To 100 Worksheets("Sheet1").Outline.ShowLevels columnLevels:=J If Err.Number <> 0 Then Err.Clear Exit For End If Next J End Sub
3. Press F5 key, the groups in Sheet1 have been expanded.
If you want to close all groups, you can use below code:
Sub CollapseAll() Worksheets("sheet1").Outline.ShowLevels 1, 1 End Sub
Note: in above codes, Sheet1 is the sheet contains groups you will be expanded or closed. Please change it to your own sheet name if you need.
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