How to show or hide Horizontal & Vertical scroll bar in Microsoft Excel?

By default, Excel provides a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom and a vertical scroll bar on the right side for navigating through the active worksheet. This guide will show you how to enable or disable these scroll bars in Excel worksheets.

Show or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with Excel Options

Show or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with VBA code

Show/hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with Kutools for Excel

 Show or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with Excel Options

To display or hide horizontal and vertical scroll bars in Excel worksheets, you must configure the settings in the "Excel Options" dialog box.

• Step 1: Click the "File" tab in Excel;
• Step 2: Click the "Options" button;
• Step 3: In the" Excel Options" dialog box, go to the "Advanced" category;
• Step 4: Scroll down to the "Display options for this workbook" section;
• Step 5: Checked or unchecked the "Show Horizontal Scroll bar" option and "Show Vertical Scroll bar "option according to your needs. See screenshot:
• Step 6: Click "OK". And you will get the result that you want. If you check them, the horizontal/vertical scroll bar will display, if you uncheck them, the horizontal/vertical scroll bar will hide.

 Show or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with VBA code

The following VBA code also can help you show or hide the horizontal/vertical scroll bar. Please do as this:

Step 1: Hold down the "ALT" + "F11" keys, and it opens the "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications" window.

Step 2: Click "Insert" > "Module", and paste the following macro in the Module Window:

VBA code to hide the horizontal and vertical scroll bar:

Option Explicit
Private Sub Workbook_Activate()
  With ActiveWindow
    .DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = False
    .DisplayVerticalScrollBar = False
  End With
End Sub

VBA code to show the horizontal and vertical scroll bar:

Private Sub Workbook_Deactivate()
  With ActiveWindow
   .DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True
   .DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True
  End With
End Sub

Step 3: Press the "F5" key to run this code. And the horizontal and vertical scroll bar will be hidden or shown.

 Show or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with Kutools for Excel

You can easily display or hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar in Excel worksheets with the "View Options" utility of "Kutools for Excel".

1: Click the "Kutools" > "Show & Hide" > "View Options". See screenshot:

2: In "View Options" dialog box, you need to do as follows:

• (1) check or unchecked the "Vertical Scrollbar" option and "Horizontal Scrollbar" option according to your needs.
• (2) If you only want to show or hide the scrollbar in the current worksheet, click the "OK" button. To show or hide the scrollbar in all sheets, click the "Apply to all sheets" button.

  

The "View Options" makes it possible to show or hide most of Microsoft Excel settings quickly, such as "Inner Tabs", "Formula Bar", "Status Bar", "Windows in Taskbar", "Gridlines", "Page Breaks", "Display Zeros", "Vertical Scroll bar", "Horizontal Scroll bar", "Sheet Tab", … etc. It will save your time in looking for these setting when you need to show or hide them.

Show/hide Horizontal/Vertical Scroll bar with Kutools for Excel

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