That works for me in 2007 - it may not be very obvious that you have selected more than one depending on the colour scheme you have for excel or the sheet tabs - my tabs are pale blue - when I select multiple tabs using that method they go only marginally paler - have you tried selecting two tabs then deleting?
There’s a quick and easy way to move an entire Excel worksheet to a different workbook.
Side note: A workbook is what you’d typically think of as an Excel file. It can contain multiple work sheets. Worksheets are added, deleted and managed in the tabs at the bottom.
I’ve seen people copy entire worksheets using copy/paste. Which works fine, especially if you know the trick that clicking the box in the top left (right between A and 1) will highlight everything in the worksheet. However, this often means that you’ll need to reformat your column widths and row heights. A good solution to this problem is to copy the entire worksheet at once.
Step 1: Open both workbooks (the one with the worksheet you want to move and the one you want to move it to).
Step 2: Right-click on the tab for the worksheet you want to move. This will give you a menu. Select “Move or Copy”
Note: It’s possible to copy multiple worksheets at once, all you need to do is hold down Command (for Mac) and select multiple tabs BEFORE you right-click
Step 3a: Select the workbook you want to move your worksheet to
Step 3b: Select “Create a copy” (if you want to keep a copy in your current workbook)
Step 3c: Select ok.
Now your entire worksheet has been copied to another workbook.
The tutorial explains how to unhide worksheets in Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and lower. You will learn how to quickly unhide worksheet by right-clicking and how to unhide all sheets at a time with VBA code.
Imagine this: you open a worksheet and notice that some formulas refer to another worksheet. You look at the sheet tabs, but the referenced spreadsheet is not there! You try to create a new sheet with the same name, but Excel tells you it already exists. What does that all mean? Simply, the worksheet is hidden. How to view hidden sheets in Excel? Obviously, you have to unhide them. This can be done manually by using Excel's Unhide command or automatically with VBA. This tutorial will teach you both methods.
- How to unhide sheets with VBA
How to unhide sheets in Excel
If you want to see just one or two hidden sheets, here's how you can quickly unhide them:
- In your Excel workbook, right-click any sheet tab and select Unhide… from the context menu.
- In the Unhide box, select the hidden sheet you want to display and click OK (or double-click the sheet name). Done!
Besides the right-click contextual menu, the Unhide dialog can be accessed from the ribbon:
- In Excel 2003 and earlier, click the Format menu, and then click Sheet > Unhide.
- In Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010 and Excel 2007, go to the Home tab > Cells group, and click the Format Under Visibility, point to Hide & Unhide, and then click Unhide Sheet…
How to unhide sheets in Excel with VBA
In situations when you have multiple hidden worksheets, unhiding them one-by-one might be very time consuming, especially if you'd like to unhide all the sheets in your workbook. Fortunately, you can automate the process with one of the following macros.
How to unhide all sheets in Excel
This small macro makes all hidden sheets in an active workbook visible at once, without disturbing you with any notifications.
Show all hidden sheets and display their count
Like the above one, this macro also displays all hidden sheets in a workbook. The difference is that upon completion, it shows a dialog box informing the user how many sheets have been unhidden:
Unhide multiple sheets that you select
If you'd rather not unhide all worksheets at once, but only those that the user explicitly agrees to make visible, then have the macro ask about each hidden sheet individually, like this:
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Unhide worksheets with a specific word in the sheet name
In situations when you only want to unhide sheets containing certain text in the their names, add an IF statement to the macro that will check the name of each hidden worksheet and unhide only those sheets that contain the text you specify.
In this example, we unhide sheets with the word 'report' in the name. The macro will display sheets such as Report, Report 1, July report, and the like.
To unhide worksheets whose names contain some other word, replace 'report' in the following code with your own text.
How to use the macros to unhide sheets in Excel
To use the macros in your worksheet, you can either copy/paste the code in the Visual Basic Editor or download the workbook with the macros and run them from there.
How to insert the macro in your workbook
You can add any of the above macros to your workbook in this way:
- Open the workbook with hidden sheets.
- Press Alt + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor.
- On the left pane, right-click ThisWorkbook and select Insert > Module from the context menu.
- Paste the code in the Code window.
- Press F5 to run the macro.
For the detailed step-by-step instructions, please see How to insert and run VBA code in Excel.
Download the workbook with the macros
Alternatively, you can download our sample workbook to unhide sheets in Excel that contains all of the macros discussed in this tutorial:
- Unhide_All_Sheets - unhide all worksheets in an active workbook momentarily and silently.
- Unhide_All_Sheets_Count - show all hidden sheets along with their count.
- Unhide_Selected_Sheets - display hidden sheets you choose to unhide.
- Unhide_Sheets_Contain - unhide worksheets whose names contain a specific word or text.
To run the macros in your Excel, you do the following:
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- Open the downloaded workbook and enable the macros if prompted.
- Open your own workbook in which you want to see hidden sheets.
- In your workbook, press Alt + F8, select the desired macro, and click Run.
For example, to unhide all sheets in your Excel file and display the hidden sheets count, you run this macro:
How to show hidden sheets in Excel by creating a custom view
Apart from macros, the tedium of showing hidden worksheets one at a time can be overcome by creating a custom view. If you are not familiar with this Excel feature, you can think of a custom view as a snapshot of your workbook settings that can be applied at any moment in a mouse click. This method is best to be used in the very beginning of your work, when none of the sheets is hidden yet.
So, what we are going to do now is create the Show All Sheets custom view. Here's how:
- Make sure all the spreadsheets in your workbook are visible. This tip shows how to quickly check workbook for hidden sheets.
- Go to the View tab > Workbook Views group, and click the Custom Views button.
- The Custom View dialog box will show up, and you click Add…
- in the Add View dialog box, type the name for your custom view, for example ShowAllSheets, and click OK.
You can now hide as many worksheets as you want, and when you wish to make them visible again, you click the Custom Views button, select the ShowAllSheet view and click Show, or simply double-click the view.
That's it! All hidden sheets will be shown immediately.
How to check if a workbook contains any hidden sheets
The fastest way to detect hidden sheets in Excel is this: right-click any sheet tab and see if the Hide… command is enabled or not. If it is enabled, click it and see which sheets are hidden. If it is disabled (greyed out), the workbook does not contain hidden sheets.
Cannot unhide sheets in Excel - problems and solutions
If you are unable to unhide certain sheets in your Excel, the following troubleshooting tips may shed some light why.
1. The workbook is protected
It is not possible to hide or unhide sheets if the workbook structure has been protected (should not be confused with workbook-level password encryption or worksheet protection). To check this, go to the Review tab > Changes group and have a look at the Protect Workbook button. If this button is highlighted in green, the workbook is protected. To unprotect it, click the Protect Workbook button, type the password if prompted and save the workbook. For more information, please see How to unlock a protected workbook in Excel.
2. Worksheets are very hidden
If your worksheets are hidden by VBA code that makes them very hidden (assigns the xlSheetVeryHidden property), such worksheets cannot be displayed by using the Unhide command. To unhide very hidden sheets, you need to change the property from xlSheetVeryHidden to xlSheetVisible from within the Visual Basic Editor or run this VBA code.
3. There are no hidden sheets in the workbook
If the Unhide command is grayed out both on the ribbon and in right-click menu, that means there is not a single hidden sheet in your workbook :)
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This is how you unhide sheets in Excel. If you are curious to know how to hide or unhide other objects such as rows, columns or formulas, you will find full details in the below articles. I thank you for reading and hope to see you on our blog next week!