How to Hide Multiple Worksheets in Excel 2013

The ability to hide worksheets in an Excel workbook can be very helpful when you need to share a spreadsheet with someone else, but there is data on that sheet that shouldn’t be edited. Simply place that data on a separate worksheet tab, reference it with a formula, then hide the tab to make it a little tougher to find.

But what if you have a workbook that contains a lot of worksheet tabs that you would like to hide? Individually hiding each of those tabs can be tedious, so you might be looking for a faster way to get it done. Fortunately you can follow the steps in the tutorial below for a quicker way to hide multiple worksheet tabs in Excel 2013.

Hiding More Than One Tab at Once in Excel 2013

The steps in this article will show you how to hide multiple worksheets at once in your Excel workbook. You will have the option of hiding a selection of worksheet tabs that are grouped together, or you can pick and choose the worksheets that you would like to hide.

Step 1: Open your file in Excel 2013.

Step 2: Locate the worksheet tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet. If you don’t see any tabs, then read this article about what to do if all of your worksheet tabs are hidden.

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Step 3: Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, then click each worksheet tab that you would like to hide. If you want to hide all of the worksheet tabs in a range, hold down the Shift key, click the first tab, then click the last tab. This will select all of the tabs in that range.

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Step 4: Right-click one of the selected tabs, then click the Hide option.

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Now that you know how to hide multiple worksheets in Excel 2013, you can prevent those tabs from showing by default in the workbook and make it more difficult for people to view or edit the information in them.

Are you done needing your worksheet tabs to be hidden? Learn how to unhide those tabs so that you can go back into the worksheets and make any necessary edits.

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