The tutorial explains how to unhide worksheets in Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and lower. You will learn how to quickly unhide worksheet by right-clicking and how to unhide all sheets at a time with VBA code. Show
Imagine this: you open a worksheet and notice that some formulas refer to another worksheet. You look at the sheet tabs, but the referenced spreadsheet is not there! You try to create a new sheet with the same name, but Excel tells you it already exists. What does that all mean? Simply, the worksheet is hidden. How to view hidden sheets in Excel? Obviously, you have to unhide them. This can be done manually by using Excel's Unhide command or automatically with VBA. This tutorial will teach you both methods. How to unhide sheets in ExcelIf you want to see just one or two hidden sheets, here's how you can quickly unhide them:
Besides the right-click contextual menu, the Unhide dialog can be accessed from the ribbon:
Note. Excel's Unhide option only allows you to select one sheet at a time. To unhide multiple sheets, you will have to repeat the above steps for each worksheet individually or you can unhide all sheets in one go by using the below macros. How to unhide sheets in Excel with VBAIn situations when you have multiple hidden worksheets, unhiding them one-by-one might be very time consuming, especially if you'd like to unhide all the sheets in your workbook. Fortunately, you can automate the process with one of the following macros. How to unhide all sheets in ExcelThis small macro makes all hidden sheets in an active workbook visible at once, without disturbing you with any notifications. Sub Unhide_All_Sheets() Dim wks As Worksheet For Each wks In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets wks.Visible = xlSheetVisible Next wks End Sub Show all hidden sheets and display their countLike the above one, this macro also displays all hidden sheets in a workbook. The difference is that upon completion, it shows
a dialog box informing the user how many sheets have been unhidden: Sub Unhide_All_Sheets_Count() Dim wks As Worksheet Dim count As Integer count = 0 For Each wks In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets If wks.Visible <> xlSheetVisible Then wks.Visible = xlSheetVisible count = count + 1 End If Next wks If count > 0 Then MsgBox count & " worksheets have been unhidden.", vbOKOnly, "Unhiding worksheets" Else MsgBox "No hidden worksheets have been found.", vbOKOnly, "Unhiding worksheets" End If End Sub Unhide multiple sheets that you selectIf you'd rather not unhide all worksheets at once, but only those that the user explicitly agrees to make visible, then have the macro ask about each hidden sheet individually, like this: Sub Unhide_Selected_Sheets() Dim wks As Worksheet Dim MsgResult As VbMsgBoxResult For Each wks In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets If wks.Visible = xlSheetHidden Then MsgResult = MsgBox("Unhide sheet " & wks.Name & "?", vbYesNo, "Unhiding worksheets") If MsgResult = vbYes Then wks.Visible = xlSheetVisible End If Next End Sub Unhide worksheets with a specific word in the sheet nameIn situations when you only want to unhide sheets containing certain text in the their names, add an IF statement to the macro that will check the name of each hidden worksheet and unhide only those sheets that contain the text you specify. In this example, we unhide sheets with the word "report" in the name. The macro will display sheets such as Report, Report 1, July report, and the like. To unhide worksheets whose names contain some other word, replace "report" in the following code with your own text. Sub Unhide_Sheets_Contain() Dim wks As Worksheet Dim count As Integer count = 0 For Each wks In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets If (wks.Visible <> xlSheetVisible) And (InStr(wks.Name, "report") > 0) Then wks.Visible = xlSheetVisible count = count + 1 End If Next wks If count > 0 Then MsgBox count & " worksheets have been unhidden.", vbOKOnly, "Unhiding worksheets" Else MsgBox "No hidden worksheets with the specified name have been found.", vbOKOnly, "Unhiding worksheets" End If End Sub How to use the macros to unhide sheets in ExcelTo use the macros in your worksheet, you can either copy/paste the code in the Visual Basic Editor or download the workbook with the macros and run them from there. How to insert the macro in your workbookYou can add any of the above macros to your workbook in this way:
For the detailed step-by-step instructions, please see How to insert and run VBA code in Excel. Download the workbook with the macrosAlternatively, you can download our sample workbook to unhide sheets in Excel that contains all of the macros discussed in this tutorial:
To run the macros in your Excel, you do the following:
For example, to unhide all
sheets in your Excel file and display the hidden sheets count, you run this macro: How to show hidden sheets in Excel by creating a custom viewApart from macros, the tedium of showing hidden worksheets one at a time can be overcome by creating a custom view. If you are not familiar with this Excel feature, you can think of a custom view as a snapshot of your workbook settings that can be applied at any moment in a mouse click. This method is best to be used in the very beginning of your work, when none of the sheets is hidden yet. So, what we are going to do now is create the Show All Sheets custom view. Here's how:
You can now hide as many worksheets as you want, and when you wish to make them visible again, you click the Custom Views button, select the
ShowAllSheet view and click Show, or simply double-click the view. That's it! All hidden sheets will be shown immediately. The fastest way to detect hidden sheets in Excel is this: right-click any
sheet tab and see if the Hide… command is enabled or not. If it is enabled, click it and see which sheets are hidden. If it is disabled (greyed out), the workbook does not contain hidden sheets. Note. This method does not show very hidden sheets. The only way to view such sheets is to unhide them with VBA. Cannot unhide sheets in Excel - problems and solutionsIf you are unable to unhide certain sheets in your Excel, the following troubleshooting tips may shed some light why. 1. The workbook is protectedIt is not possible to hide or unhide sheets if the workbook structure has been protected (should not be confused with workbook-level password encryption or worksheet protection). To check this, go to the Review tab > Changes group and have a look at the Protect Workbook button. If this button is highlighted in green, the workbook is protected. To unprotect it, click the Protect Workbook button, type the password if prompted and save the workbook. For more information, please see How to unlock a protected workbook in Excel. 2. Worksheets are very hiddenIf your worksheets are hidden by VBA code that makes them very hidden (assigns the xlSheetVeryHidden property), such worksheets cannot be displayed by using the Unhide command. To unhide very hidden sheets, you need to change the property from xlSheetVeryHidden to xlSheetVisible from within the Visual Basic Editor or run this VBA code. 3. There are no hidden sheets in the workbookIf the Unhide command is grayed out both on the ribbon and in right-click menu, that means there is not a single hidden sheet in your workbook :) This is how you unhide sheets in Excel. If you are curious to know how to hide or unhide other objects such as rows, columns or formulas, you will find full details in the below articles. I thank you for reading and hope to see you on our blog next week! Available downloadsMacros to unhide worksheets in Excel You may also be interested inWhat steps will show hidden rows or columns quizlet?Select the columns and rows on both sides of the hidden columns or rows.. Under Home tab, click Format in the Cells group.. Select Unhide Columns or Unhide Rows.. Which of the following statements describes how do you increase or decrease the columns with?Which of the following statements describes how to increase or decrease a column's width? Drag the boundary next to the column heading.
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