How to delete hidden worksheets in Excel?

Perhaps you have a workbook contains many hidden worksheets which aren’t useful, and they take up so many bits, now you want to delete all of the trashy hidden worksheets. How could you quickly delete them?

Delete hidden worksheets with VBA code

Delete hidden worksheets with Inspect Document function

Delete hidden worksheets with Kutools for Excel

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Delete hidden worksheets with VBA code

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The following VBA code will delete all hidden worksheets within a workbook.

1. Open the workbook you want to delete the hidden worksheet.

2. Click Developer > Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert > Module, then copy and paste the following code into the Module:

Sub deletehidden()
Dim a As Integer
a = 1
While a <= worksheets="" count="" span="">
If Not Worksheets(a).Visible Then
Worksheets(a).Delete
Else
a = a + 1
End If
Wend
End Sub

3. Click   button to execute the code, and a warning window will pop out for each hidden worksheet to make sure that you really want to delete it. See screenshot:

4. Then click Delete. And all of the hidden worksheets have been deleted.

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Delete hidden worksheets with Inspect Document function

With the Inspect Document function of Excel, you can delete the hidden worksheets quickly and easily.

1. If you are using Excel 2010/2013, you can click File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document, see screenshot:

If you have Excel 2007, you can click Office Button on the top left corner, and then click Prepare > Inspect Document. See screenshot:

2. In the Document Inspector dialog box, click Inspect button.

3. And the hidden worksheets will be inspected, then click Remove All button to delete the hidden worksheets of the active workbook.

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Delete hidden worksheets with Kutools for Excel

If you want to delete the hidden worksheets quickly, you can use Kutools for Excel.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, you can do as follows:

1. Go to the ribbon, and click Enterprise > Worksheet Tools > Delete All Hidden Sheets, see screenshot:

2. Then a prompt box pops out to remind you if you really want to delete all hidden worksheets. See screenshot:

3. Click Yes, and another prompt box will appear to remind you how many hidden worksheets have been deleted. See screenshot:

4. Click OK to finish this task.

Click Delete All Hidden Sheets to know more about this feature.

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Related article:

Delete all hidden rows or columns

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