This is great! I have to approaches to the problem and they both work.
Thank-you so much for responding.

"Ken Wright" wrote:

Click on the little grey square at the top left of your spreadsheet, just
above where the row headers are and just to the left of where the column
headers are. This will select the entire sheet. Now as long as you do the
following, then one of them is going to bring it back for you:-

Format / Column / Unhide
Window / Unfreeze panes
Format / Column / Standard Width

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"Patinak" wrote in message
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I am using excel 2003. I am a beginner. I followed the instructions to
hide
columns (I'm working on a stock spread sheet). I hid three columns,
followed the instructions to unhide them and nothing happenss.