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Quickly hide all inactive (all not-selected) worksheets in Excel

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When you are working a workbook with too many worksheets, you may need to hide some inactive worksheets. Normally, you have to select the worksheets that you want to hide before changing their hidden status at one time in Excel. But with this Kutools for Excel's Hide Unselected Sheets utility, you can:

Hide all inactive or non-selected worksheets with one click


Click Kutools >> Show & Hide >> Hide Unselected Sheets. See screenshot:

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Hide all inactive or non-selected worksheets with one click

1. Select the worksheets that you don’t want to hide with holding Ctrl key. (Tip: If you want to hide all inactive worksheet, you just need to apply this utility by clicking Kutools >> Show & Hide >> Hide Unselected Sheets, then all inactive worksheets will be hidden.)

2. Then applying this utility by clicking Kutools >> Show & Hide >> Hide Unselected Sheets to hide all non-selected worksheets. See screenshots:

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Note: you can unhide all hidden worksheets by applying the Unhide All Sheets from Show / Hide group.


Demo:hide all inactive (all not-selected) worksheets in Excel

 
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