How to hide or unhide Columns in Excel worksheet
How to hide Columns in Excel worksheet
Sometimes you may want to hide some sensitive or unwanted columns from your Excel worksheet. You can hide a Column or a Range of Columns from Excel worksheet. After you hid Columns from Excel worksheet, the hidden Columns are not printed.
Hiding Columns from Excel worksheet is very useful if you do not want to display some Columns of Excel worksheet containing sensitive/unwanted information to other users or if you do not want some Columns of sensitive/unwanted information appear in Excel worksheet's printouts.
To hide Columns from Excel worksheet, first select the Columns which you want to hide. After selecting the Columns, right-click on the selected Columns and click "Hide" from the context menu as shown below.
You can see from below images that the selected Columns in above example are hidden.
A double-line between Column letter A and Column letter D shows that there are Columns hidden between those Columns. The skipped Column letters between Column A and Column D are hidden. That means, Column B and Column C are hidden.
An animation about how to hide Columns in Excel worksheet is copied below.
Another method to achieve the same result described above is to select the Columns you want to hide first and then run command "Hide Columns" from Excel Ribbon > "Home" Tab > "Cells" Group > "Format" > "Hide & Unhide", as shown in below image.
How to unhide hidden Columns in Excel worksheet
To unhide hidden Columns, select left-side and right-side Columns of the hidden Columns. After selecting left-side and right-side Columns of the hidden Columns, right-click on selected Columns and select "Unhide" from the context menu.
In this example, Columns B and C are hidden. Left-side and right-side Columns of the hidden Columns are Column A and Column D.
You can see from below image that the hidden Columns between Column A and Column D are unhidden. Here in this example, hidden Columns are Column B and Column C.
An animation about how to unhide hidden Columns in Excel worksheet is copied below.
Another method to achieve the same result described above is to select left-side and right-side Columns of the hidden Columns and then run command "Unhide Columns" from Excel Ribbon > "Home" Tab > "Cells" Group > "Format" > "Hide & Unhide", as shown in below image.
