How to hide worksheets or all inactive worksheets in Excel 2007/2010?

The article introduces two ways to hide all inactive worksheets in Excel 2007/2010. 

• Hide all inactive worksheets;
• Hide all inactive worksheets in one click.

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Method A: Hide all inactive worksheets

Step 1. To hide all inactive worksheets, you may have to hold down Ctrl key to select all inactive worksheets first.

Step 2. On the Home tab, click on Format in the Cells group. Under Visibility, select Hide/Unhide, then Hide Sheet. See screenshot (Fig.1)

You can also simply right-click on the tab, and select Hide.

 

Fig. 1: Hide inactive worksheets in Excel

Note: Hiding inactive worksheets is not as simple as it can be while there are hundreds of inactive sheets need to be hided. You may have to click the mouse for hundreds of times for selecting all of them. If you would like to get an easier way, please make it according to the procedures that the Method B provides.

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Method B: Hide all inactive worksheets in one click

The third party add-in Kutools for Excel can help hide inactive worksheets with one click. With the Hide Inactive Worksheets utility of Kutools for Excel, you can be easy to hide all inactive worksheets in the workbook.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, apply Hide Inactive Worksheets according to these steps:

Click on Kutools > View group > Show/hide > Hide Inactive Worksheets. See screenshot (Fig.2)

 

Fig.2 Hide Inactive Worksheets of Kutools for Excel

The following example shows how to hide inactive worksheets with Kutools for Excel. See screenshot (Fig.3)

Fig.3 example of Hide inactive worksheets with Kutools for Excel

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