How to Completely Hide an Excel Worksheet

Excel worksheets have three levels of visibility: visible, hidden, and very hidden. Setting the worksheet to "very hidden" reduces the likelihood that others can access them. To set the worksheet to "very hidden", set its visibility to "xlsSheetVeryHidden" in the VBA window.

Excel worksheets have three levels of visibility: visible, hidden, and very hidden. Many people know how to hide and unhide the worksheet by right-clicking on the tab area at the bottom of the workbook, but this is just a medium way to remove the Excel worksheet from the view.

Whether you want to organize your workbook tabs, set up dedicated worksheets for drop-down options and other controls, keep only the most important worksheets visible, or hide information you don't want others to see, you can set Excel worksheets to be very hidden. This step reduces the likelihood that others will make these worksheets visible again.

The following is how to operate.

Article Press Alt 11 to open the Visual Basic For Applications (VBA) window, or add the Development Tools tab to the ribbon and click Visual Basic.

The next steps involve activating the necessary panes so that you can change the visibility state of the worksheet to "very hidden". First, click View on the ribbon, and then click Project Explorer. If you prefer to use Excel keyboard shortcuts, press Alt > V > Ctrl R.

Then, click View again, this time click Properties Window. Alternatively, press Alt > V > F4.

Now, in the Project Explorer pane, expand Options until you see a list of sheets in the workbook, and then click the sheet you want to hide.

Next, in the Properties window, select "xlsSheetVeryHidden" from the "Visible" drop-down menu.

Finally, click the Save button in the upper left corner of the VBA window and click the "X" in the upper right corner to close it. Or, press Ctrl S and then Alt F4.

Now you will see that the very hidden worksheet tab is not visible. What's more, when you right-click on the workbook tab area, the Unhide option appears grayed out, just like the workbook does not contain any hidden worksheets.

Notes when setting a worksheet to "very hidden" Before hiding a worksheet using this method, you should note the following additional tips:

• While it's safer than right-clicking on a tab and clicking Hide, setting a worksheet to Very Hide is not a foolproof way to prevent people from accessing sensitive data stored in their workbooks. In fact, if they stumble upon this post, they will know how to make the very hidden worksheet visible again! If someone else has access to a file containing confidential information, consider using a password to protect the workbook instead.

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• Even if many people don't know the option to set the worksheet to "very hidden", some people know it. To fix this, at the top of any hidden worksheets I always type comments like "This worksheet is for reference only".
• It is visible that the formula in the worksheet that references cells in the very hidden worksheet is still working as expected.

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In addition to hiding the entire sheet in the Excel workbook, you can hide rows and columns in the sheet by right-clicking on the row number or column letter and selecting Hide. To hide multiple adjacent rows or columns, first, click and drag the mouse to select multiple row numbers or column letters at the same time. On the other hand, to select the non-continuous rows and columns to hide, press the Ctrl key when clicking the row number or column letter.

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