Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hide or unhide rows and columns in Excel 2010

If your workbook contains sensitive data and you do not want the data to get exposed then you may hide the rows or columns. Hiding a row actually means that the height of the row is set to 0 and hiding a column actually means setting the width of the column to 0.
To hide a row, click on the cell first. In Home tab, click Format, hover the mouse over Hide & Unhide and finally click Hide Rows.
To unhide a row, the above and below row to the hidden row must be selected first. From the Home tab, click Format, hover the mouse over Hide & Unhide and finally click Unhide Rows. For example, to unhide row 5, you have to click on any cell in row 4 and then press and hold the Shift key, click a cell in row6 and continue performing the unhide process.
To hide a column, click on the cell first. In Home tab, click Format, hover the mouse over Hide & Unhide and finally click Hide Columns.
To unhide a column, select the columns that are just left and right to the hidden column and then from the Home tab, click Format, hover the mouse over Hide & Unhide and finally click Unhide Columns.
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