Trouble Unhiding Excel Row and Columns

It’s easy to hide rows and columns in an Excel worksheet, and you or your boss or co-worker might do that when setting up an Excel file.

Occasionally though, you might have trouble unhiding Excel row and columns. There are written steps and a video below, that show how to fix the problem

Hiding Rows and Columns

Usually it’s easy to unhide rows or columns that have been temporarily hidden.

Just select the columns (or rows) on either side of the hidden ones, then right-click, and click Unhide.

Trouble Unhiding

However, if you hide Row 1, or Column A, in an Excel worksheet, you might have trouble unhiding them.

Here are the steps to see the hidden rows or columns again:

• For rows, press on the first visible row button, then drag up, onto the Select All button. The little popup shows the number of rows you’ve selected.
• Then, right-click the first visible row button, and click Unhide.

NOTE: For hidden columns, select the first visible column, and drag to the left.

See the Steps to Unhide Rows

This animated gif shows the steps for selecting the hidden rows, and unhiding them

Another Solution

If that selection trick didn’t work, the rows might be hidden because some of the worksheet has been locked, with the Freeze Panes command.

To see if freezing is the problem of hidden rows or columns, follow these steps:

• Select any cell on the the worksheet
• On the Excel Ribbon, click the View tab
• If there is an Unfreeze Pane command in the drop down list, click that, to unfreeze the locked sections

The “hidden” rows or columns might reappear after that, when you scroll to the top or left of the worksheet.

Video: Trouble Unhiding Excel Rows

This short video shows you a quick way to see those hidden rows and columns again, in your Excel worksheet.

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Trouble Unhiding Excel Row and Columns

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