Hide one or multiple selected sheet tabs with Hide & Unhide feature

We can apply Excel’s Hide & Unhide feature to hide one or multiple selected sheet tabs easily.

1. Select one or multiple sheet tabs you will hide in the Sheet Tab bar.

Note:
(1) Holding the Shift key, you can select multiple adjacent sheet tabs with clicking the first sheet tab and the last one in the Sheet Tab bar;
(2) Holding the Ctrl key, you can select multiple nonadjacent sheet tabs with clicking each sheet tab in the Sheet Tab bar one by one.

2. Click Home > Format > Hide & Unhide > Hide Sheet. See screenshot:

And then you will see all selected sheet tabs are hidden from the Sheet Tab bar.

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Display one hidden sheet tab with Hide & Unhide feature

1. Click Home > Format > Hide & Unhide > Unhide Sheet.

2. In the opening Unhide dialog box, select the sheet tab which you want to display in the Sheet Tab bar, and click the OK button. See screenshot:

Note: This method can only display one hidden sheet tab at a time. For batch displaying all hidden sheet tabs with only one click, please click here.

If you have Kutools for Excel’s installed, you can apply its Hide Unselected Sheets utility to hide all sheet tabs from the Sheet Tab bar except the active/select one, or apply the Unhide All Sheets utility to display all hidden sheet tabs with only one click.

Just click Kutools > View > Hide Unselected Sheets. And then all sheet tabs are hidden except the active one.

Note: For hiding all sheet tabs except selected ones, please select these sheet tabs you will not hide in the Sheet Tab bar, and then click Kutools > Show / Hide > Hide Unselected Sheets.

Display all hidden sheet tabs with only one click

Just click Kutools > Show / Hide > Unhide All Sheets to batch display all hidden sheet tabs at once. See screenshot:

We can display or hide the entire Sheet Tab Bar to display/hide all sheet tabs by Excel's Options. Please do as follows:

1. Click the File > Options (or > Excel Options) to open the Excel Options dialog box.

2. In the Excel Options dialog box, please click the Advanced in left bar, and check or uncheck the Show sheet tabs option in the Display options for this workbook section;

3. Click the OK button.

All of the worksheet tabs will be displayed or hidden.

The following two simple VBA codes also can help you to hide or show the sheet tabs.

1. Click Developer > Visual Basic, and a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will display, click Insert > Module, and then input the following codes in the module.

Sub Macro()
ActiveWindow.DisplayWorkbookTabs = False
End Sub

Sub Macro()
ActiveWindow.DisplayWorkbookTabs = True
End Sub

2. Then click Run button to run the code. You will get the result as you want.

Also with Kutools for Excel installed, you can apply its View Options utility to quickly display or hide the entire Sheet Tab Bar easily in Excel.

1. Click Kutools > View > View Options.

2. In the View Options dialog box, check or uncheck the Sheet Tabs option to show or hide sheet tabs in Microsoft Excel window.

The View Options of Kutools for Excel 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 Scrollbar, Horizontal Scrollbar, Sheet Tab, … etc. It will save your time in looking for these setting when you need to show or hide them. Click to know more…