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How to display or hide Row & Column Headers in Excel?

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2024-08-27

By default, we can locate cells through worksheets with column heading at the top and row heading at the left. Sometimes, you may want to hide these headings. This article will talk about some tips for displaying or hiding headings in Microsoft Excel.


Display or hide Row & Column headings in active worksheet

If you want to display or hide the Row headings and Column headings in the active worksheet, you can do as follows:

Go to the Show group on the View tab, and uncheck the Headings option to hide the Row & Column headings, while check the Headings option to display the headings. See screenshot:
check or uncheck the Headings option under the View tab

In our example, we uncheck the Headings option on the View tab, and both row heading and column heading are hidden. See screenshot:
both row heading and column heading are hidden

Note: You can also click File (Office Button) > Options > Advanced, and then check or uncheck the Show row and column headers option to display/hide the both row heading and column heading. See screenshot:
check or uncheck the Show row and column headers option in the Excel Options dialog box

Display or hide Row & Column headings in active worksheet or all worksheets

The above method can only display/hide the Row & Column headings in one worksheet at a time. But sometimes, you need to display/hide the Row & Column headings in all worksheets. Display/hide the headings in each worksheet one by one? No, that's too tedious! Here I will introduce Kutools for Excel's View Options utility to batch display/hide the Row & Column headings in all worksheets together.

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1. Click Kutools > Show / Hide > View Options.

2. In the opening View Options dialog box, please uncheck the Rows & column headers option to hide the headings, and then click the Apply to all sheets button and Ok button successively. See screenshot:
uncheck the Rows & column headers option to hide the headings in the View Options dialog box

Notes:
(1) For displaying the Row & column headings, please check the Rows & column headers option;
(2) For only displaying/hiding the Row & column heading in active worksheet, please do not click the Apply to All sheets button.

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Demo: display or hide Row & Column Headers in all worksheets

 

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