I am perplexed!

I think am typically decently savvy when it comes to Excel, and can
usually find an answer to any issue I run across on Microsoft or via
this Usenet group, but this one really has me at loss!

I have a large workbook which contains a worksheet of raw data, among
other things. There are approximately 3000+ lines or data in the
worksheet currently. In the process of updating the data this
afternoon, without touching anything having to remotely do with hiding
rows, a good portion of my rows went into hidden status.

No problem! I'll just unhide them!

Wrong.

I can unhide them, one at a time, but with approximately 1/3 of my 3000
data points hidden, that will take a good portion of my precious time!


This is what I've tried, with no luck:

1. Selecting the entire worksheet and going to Format -- Row --
Unhide
2. Doing Ctrl-A (twice) and selecting Format -- Row -- Unhide
3. Selecting the entire worksheet and going to Format -- Row --
Height and giving the rows a standard height (in case they were set to
zero height)
4. Selecting the rows directly above and below the hidden row(s) and
right-clicking to Unhide it.
5. Selecting the row just below the hidden row(s) and right-clicking to
Unhide it.
6. Selecting the row just above the hidden row(s) and right-clicking to
Unhide it.
7. Repeating 5 & 6 but went through the Format menu to Unhide.
8. Selecting only the rows containing the hidden data and
right-clicking to Unhide it.
9. #8, but through the Format menu to Unhide.

(Yes, I like to be thorough!)

I'm using Excel 2003 SP1.

I would just exit out of Excel to before the "burp" happened, but I had
entered a ton of new data into the worksheet and was preparing to save
everything back up to our Sharepoint site when everything went nuts. I
can unhide by doing 1 row at a time, like I mentioned. I may just
unhide the rows for the data I entered since last save and put it in a
temp file, cancel out, reopen the workbook and paste everything back in
if I can't get this little issue figured out soon. I'm curious, though,
and would like to figure it out in case I run into it again down the
road. :)

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!

Kirsten Lynch

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