How to show or unhide the hidden workbooks in Excel?

Sometimes, you may hide some unwanted workbooks, but if you want to use them, how could you display them as soon as possible? This article explains how to unhide the hidden workbook windows in Excel step by step.

Workbook In Excel Example

1. What is a Workbook in Excel? A workbook is an Excel File. When you open an Excel Workbook.
2. VBA Workbook Protection allows you to lock the structure of the workbook. When a workbook is protected, users will be unable to add, delete, hide / unhide, or protect / unprotect worksheets. If you are building a model, you probably want to turn on workbook protection to prevent users (or you!) from accidentally deleting worksheets.

Create a workbook in Excel Excel makes it easy to crunch numbers. With Excel, you can streamline data entry with AutoFill. Then, get chart recommendations based on your data, and create them with one click. In simple words, an excel worksheet is a space where data is entered in large amounts, there are many options such as entering the information in the form of digits and also different formulas to solve equations. The workbook is a collection of these worksheets which helps in viewing a variety of information in one place.

Unhide hidden workbooks in Excel one by one
Quickly unhide all hidden workbooks at the same time with Kutools for Excel

How To Unshare A Workbook In Excel

Unhide the hidden workbooks in Excel one by one

1. In Excel, click the View tab, then click Unhide in the Window group. See screenshot:

2. If there is only one hidden workbook, after clicking the Unhide command, the hidden workbook will show up. If there are multiple hidden workbooks, you will find them all listing in the Unhide dialog box after clicking the Unhide button in step 1. Select the workbook and click the OK button to display it. See screenshot:

Note: If you want to display all hidden workbooks, you must repeat the above operations.

Quickly unhide all the hidden workbooks in Excel with Kutools for Excel

As Excel does not support you with one option to unhide all the hidden workbooks in bulk, you can try the Unhide All Windows utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can show all hidden windows at the same time quickly.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

Click Kutools > Show & Hide > Unhide All Hidden Windows, see screenshot:

Now all hidden workbook windows are displayed.

Note: The number displaying after the function indicates the total number of hidden workbooks in your Excel. If there is no hidden workbook, the function will turns gray and cannot be clicked.

If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Quickly unhide all hidden workbooks at the same time with Kutools for Excel

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Returns a Sheets collection that represents all the worksheets in the specified workbook. Read-only Sheets object.

Syntax

expression.Worksheets

expression A variable that represents a Workbook object.

Remarks

Workbook In Excel Definition

Using this property without an object qualifier returns all the worksheets in the active workbook.

This property doesn't return macro sheets; use the Excel4MacroSheets property or the Excel4IntlMacroSheets property to return those sheets.

What Is A Workbook In Excel

Example

This example displays the value in cell A1 on Sheet1 in the active workbook.

This example displays the name of each worksheet in the active workbook.

This example adds a new worksheet to the active workbook and then sets the name of the worksheet.

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