A Microsoft Excel workbook is really a container, a bit like a folder. Each Excel workbook contains one or more worksheets and it is the worksheet that is the actual container of your information. Worksheets are identified by a tab which carries the name of the sheet. Clicking a tab will activate that particular sheet.
In exactly the same way that Microsoft Excel allows you to hide columns, it is also possible to hide entire worksheets. Hiding a worksheet is particularly useful where you have a workbook that contains a lot of sheets. Naturally, hidden worksheets can be made visible again by using the Unhide command. It is possible to hide either an individual sheet or to hide a group of sheets. However sheets can only be unhidden one sheet at a time.
To hide just one sheet, just right-click on the sheet tab and choose Hide. The corresponding worksheet will then simply disappear. There is also a ribbon command which will do exactly the same thing. First, you highlight the sheet by clicking on its tab and then, in the Cells section of the Home Tab of Excel Ribbon, choose Format-Visibility-Hide and Unhide-Hide.
To hide more than one sheet, simply highlight the sheets by clicking on the first holding down the Control key and clicking on each of the others. Next, right-click on one of the highlighted sheet tabs and choose Hide.
To make a hidden worksheet visible again, you can right-click on any sheet tab and choose Unhide. The Unhide dialog then appears. Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to select more than one sheet to unhide; if you try Control-click or Shift-click, you’ll see that only one sheet can be highlighted. Highlight the name of the sheet that you want to make visible and click OK.
If you prefer, you can also use the Excel Ribbon command Format-Visibility-Hide and Unhide-UnHide Sheet. When the Unhide dialog box appears, highlight the sheet you would like to unhide and click OK. You will notice that when sheets are unhidden they very conveniently return to the position that they originally occupied.
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