Terry.

The hidden property of a cell has the effect that the FORMULA of a cell
cannot be seen on the formula bar.

BUT

like the locked propert it's only "IN EFFECT" when the sheet is
protected.


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"Terry von Gease" wrote:

In no particular order:

Just what does 'Hidden" do for a cell? Try as I might, locked,
unlocked, with formula, without formula, etc.I fail to see any
difference whatsoever in the behavior of a cell that is marked
"Hidden" and one that is not. If one could actually hide the contents
of a cell without messing around with the cell format it would be a
Good Thing.

How does one reduce what Excel thinks is the size of a sheet? Assume
that a new sheet is created. Do the following:

With Sheets("mysheet")
.Cells.Delete Shift:=xlUp
.Columns(1).Formula = "=other_sheet!$A1"
.Cells.Delete Shift:=xlUp
End With

The first .Cell.Delete happens in a timely manner. The second and any
subsequent .Cells.Delete takes forever. It would seem that setting an
entire column irrevocably increases Excel's opinion of the size of the
sheet to the maximum. Or is something else happening here? If the size
is being increased as I suspect, how to get it back to some reasonable
effective size?

--
Terry

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I never said I didn't know how to use one."
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