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What's hidden?
I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns.
I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
I don't know if this will help or not, but if you had 10 contiguous columns
hidden, say F to O, and you only wanted to unhide K, Hit <F5, Type k1, hit <Enter, then: <Format <Column <Unhide If you wanted to unhide only K and L, Type k:l If you wanted to unhide only H, J, and M Type h1,j1,m1 -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Michael Horowitz" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
I don't know how you can unhide one specific column if you don't know which
one it is. But, if you want to try a guess, say you think it's column G: -Press F5, type G1 and Enter. -Press Ctrl-Shift-0 (zero, on top row of keyboard) to unhide. -To hide, press Ctrl-0. -- Jim "Michael Horowitz" wrote in message ... |I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. | I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a | screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't | recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so | I can locate that column. | Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to | unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - | Mike |
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What's hidden?
The column headers should give you a clue.
A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
Let me restate:
I'm showing coumns A B H I J. I know C D E F G are hidden, but I don't know their names. I cannot find the one I'm looking for unless I unhide those columns. I'm looking for a quick way to remind me what those columns headers are - Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50:50 -0700, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: The column headers should give you a clue. A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
Perhaps your best bet is to print out the column headers and keep that handy
"Michael Horowitz" wrote: Let me restate: I'm showing coumns A B H I J. I know C D E F G are hidden, but I don't know their names. I cannot find the one I'm looking for unless I unhide those columns. I'm looking for a quick way to remind me what those columns headers are - Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50:50 -0700, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: The column headers should give you a clue. A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
There's no way to just unhide a column header.
However, you can enter the header names in a list in an out-of-the-way location, say AA1 to AA5: C - Gross D - Tare E - Net .... etc. Then, select those 5 cells and click in the name box. Type a short name, say List Then hit <Enter. Now, to remind yourself, click in the name box, and click on "List", And you'll see your header names. -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Michael Horowitz" wrote in message ... Let me restate: I'm showing coumns A B H I J. I know C D E F G are hidden, but I don't know their names. I cannot find the one I'm looking for unless I unhide those columns. I'm looking for a quick way to remind me what those columns headers are - Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50:50 -0700, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: The column headers should give you a clue. A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
This would be much better in a UserForm with a multiselect listbox,
but this gets the job done. Copy and paste all of this into a new module. Then run the unhideCols sub. Sub unhideCols() Dim lCol As Integer, msg As String Dim varInput As String, i As Integer lCol = Cells.Find(what:="*", After:=[A1], _ SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _ SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column msg = "" For i = 1 To lCol If Columns(i).Hidden = True Then msg = msg & "Column " & ColumnLetter(i) & _ " -- " & Cells(1, i).Text & Chr(10) End If Next i If msg = "" Then MsgBox "No columns hidden" Exit Sub End If varInput = InputBox(msg & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & _ "To unhide all columns, enter 'ALL'", _ "Enter the column letter you wish to unhide") If varInput = "" Then Exit Sub On Error Resume Next If UCase(varInput) = "ALL" Then Columns.Hidden = False Else Cells(i, varInput).EntireColumn.Hidden = False End If End Sub Function ColumnLetter(ColumnNumber As Integer) As String If ColumnNumber 26 Then ColumnLetter = Chr(Int((ColumnNumber - 1) / 26) + 64) & _ Chr(((ColumnNumber - 1) Mod 26) + 65) Else ColumnLetter = Chr(ColumnNumber + 64) End If End Function Michael Horowitz wrote: Let me restate: I'm showing coumns A B H I J. I know C D E F G are hidden, but I don't know their names. I cannot find the one I'm looking for unless I unhide those columns. I'm looking for a quick way to remind me what those columns headers are - Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50:50 -0700, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: The column headers should give you a clue. A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
WAYYYY over my head! I've just discovered the filter! Thanks anyway -
Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:22:00 -0700, JW wrote: This would be much better in a UserForm with a multiselect listbox, but this gets the job done. Copy and paste all of this into a new module. Then run the unhideCols sub. Sub unhideCols() Dim lCol As Integer, msg As String Dim varInput As String, i As Integer lCol = Cells.Find(what:="*", After:=[A1], _ SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _ SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column msg = "" For i = 1 To lCol If Columns(i).Hidden = True Then msg = msg & "Column " & ColumnLetter(i) & _ " -- " & Cells(1, i).Text & Chr(10) End If Next i If msg = "" Then MsgBox "No columns hidden" Exit Sub End If varInput = InputBox(msg & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & _ "To unhide all columns, enter 'ALL'", _ "Enter the column letter you wish to unhide") If varInput = "" Then Exit Sub On Error Resume Next If UCase(varInput) = "ALL" Then Columns.Hidden = False Else Cells(i, varInput).EntireColumn.Hidden = False End If End Sub Function ColumnLetter(ColumnNumber As Integer) As String If ColumnNumber 26 Then ColumnLetter = Chr(Int((ColumnNumber - 1) / 26) + 64) & _ Chr(((ColumnNumber - 1) Mod 26) + 65) Else ColumnLetter = Chr(ColumnNumber + 64) End If End Function Michael Horowitz wrote: Let me restate: I'm showing coumns A B H I J. I know C D E F G are hidden, but I don't know their names. I cannot find the one I'm looking for unless I unhide those columns. I'm looking for a quick way to remind me what those columns headers are - Mike On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:50:50 -0700, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: The column headers should give you a clue. A B C E F G would indicate that D is hidden. To unhide D select C and E and right-clckunhide. If you had D E F hidden and wanted to unhide just E then click in namebox and type E1 and Enter then FormatColumnUnhide Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a dozen wide columns. I have occassion to hide columns so I can fit what I want to see on a screen. However, sometimes I need to see a hidden column and I don't recall which one it was. I don't want to have to unhide everything so I can locate that column. Is there a trick to seeing the column headings without having to unhide them? or is there an easy toggle between hide and unhide? - Mike |
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What's hidden?
Probably the easiest; thanks, - Mike
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:18:14 -0700, "RagDyer" wrote: There's no way to just unhide a column header. However, you can enter the header names in a list in an out-of-the-way location, say AA1 to AA5: C - Gross D - Tare E - Net ... etc. Then, select those 5 cells and click in the name box. Type a short name, say List Then hit <Enter. Now, to remind yourself, click in the name box, and click on "List", And you'll see your header names. |
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