Some quick diagnostics ..

Press CTRL+A (selects the entire sheet)
Click Format Column Unhide
Click Format Column Width 8.5 (say)
(Some column widths may have been inadvertently set to zero)

Clear any frozen pane (another possible culprit ..)
Click Window Unfreeze Panes

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"moodysmb" wrote in message
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I was using excell 2000
Saved worksheet with 3 colums hidden.
opened worksheet
Highlighted column before and after columns i hid.
clicked unhide.
Hidden Columns did not display.
How can I recover these columns?thank you sharon m brown