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How to show or unhide the hidden workbooks in Excel?

Sometimes, you may hide some unwanted workbooks, but if you want to use them, how could you display them as soon as possible? This article explains how to unhide the hidden workbook windows in Excel step by step.

In simple words, an excel worksheet is a space where data is entered in large amounts, there are many options such as entering the information in the form of digits and also different formulas to solve equations. The workbook is a collection of these worksheets which helps in viewing a variety of information in one place. Excel binary workbook file (.xlsb) OpenDocument Spreadsheet file (.ods) Excel macro-enabled workbook (.xlsm) A workbook in this format can be opened but macros do not run in a browser window. Workbooks in other formats, such as.csv format, are generally not supported in Excel for the web. For more information about Excel file formats, see Save a workbook in another file format.

Unhide hidden workbooks in Excel one by one
Quickly unhide all hidden workbooks at the same time with Kutools for Excel

Unhide the hidden workbooks in Excel one by one

1. In Excel, click the View tab, then click Unhide in the Window group. See screenshot:

2. If there is only one hidden workbook, after clicking the Unhide command, the hidden workbook will show up. If there are multiple hidden workbooks, you will find them all listing in the Unhide dialog box after clicking the Unhide button in step 1. Select the workbook and click the OK button to display it. See screenshot:

Note: If you want to display all hidden workbooks, you must repeat the above operations.

When you open Excel, you’ll see a window asking what you want to do: To open a blank workbook,double-click Blank workbook, and you’re good to go. That’s all there is to it. If you already have a workbook open, click the File tab from the left side of the Ribbon, then select New from the left sidebar. You can locate a workbook on your computer and simply double-click it to open it, but you can also open a workbook from within the Excel program. Click the File tab.

Quickly unhide all the hidden workbooks in Excel with Kutools for Excel

As Excel does not support you with one option to unhide all the hidden workbooks in bulk, you can try the Unhide All Windows utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can show all hidden windows at the same time quickly.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

Click Kutools > Show & Hide > Unhide All Hidden Windows, see screenshot:

Now all hidden workbook windows are displayed.

Note: The number displaying after the function indicates the total number of hidden workbooks in your Excel. If there is no hidden workbook, the function will turns gray and cannot be clicked.

If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Quickly unhide all hidden workbooks at the same time with Kutools for Excel

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To create a new workbook using VBA, you need to use the “Workbooks.Add” method. When you use this method, it inserts a new workbook (without saving it) and activates it after that. It works like when you press the keyboard shortcut CONTROL + N. You can also use a template to insert a new workbook.

Create a New Workbook using VBA

Make sure to add the developer tab to the ribbon to enter this code into the VBE.

1. Type the keyword “Workbooks” to refer to the workbook object.
2. After that, type a dot.
3. Here’s you’ll have a list of properties and methods to select.
4. Select “Add” from that list or type it.

Add a New Workbook using a Template

As I said, we are using the Workbooks.Add method. With this method, there’s an argument (optional) that you can use to refer to a file as a template.

Let’s say you have workbook and want to have the new workbook exactly same like it, you can refer to it as a template.

When you run the above code, it takes the reference from the “book1” which is saved on the desktop. The template workbook has 6 worksheets and the new workbook has exactly the same number of worksheets.

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Apart from this, you can use the default arguments to decide what type of sheet you want to have in the new workbook.

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2. xlWBATExcel4IntlMacroSheet: Macro Sheet Version 4
3. xlWBATExcel4MacroSheet: Macro Sheet (International) Version 4
4. xlWBATWorksheet: Worksheet

Create a New Excel Workbook and Save it

When you create a new workbook, Excel open it but will not save it with the Add method. So for this, you need to use the SaveAs method.

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1. First, use the workbook.add to create a new workbook.
2. Next, refer to the active workbook and use the SaveAs method.
3. In the SaveAs method, use the path where you want to save the workbook along with the name of the file.
4. In the end, run the code.

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