I wasn't able to reproduce your difficulty. When you go to such a column
via the name box what does Format, column width show? If it's 0 will
entering a 10 say widen the column?

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Jim
"RobN" wrote in message
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|I am using Vs2007 and I'm having trouble unhiding columns.
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| I've clicked in the cell next to the hidden columns and selected
FormatHide
| UnhideColumns Unhide and, I've highlighted the complete sheet and tried
the
| same, without success.
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| With another worksheet, I had to unhide some rows before the column unhide
| would work, but this sheet doesn't have any hidden rows. In any case I
| don't understand why that worked!
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| The last column showing is AA. The next few columns have data and formulas
| and I can get to them by typing the ref in the Name Box.
|
| Rob
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