The comment will still remain and can be viewed by simply going to the Review tab and clicking on Show All Comments. You can change this behavior so that the arrow and the comment are not shown when hovering or selecting the cell. When you hover over the cell or select it, the comment will appear in a pop up window automatically. Hide Commentsīy default, when you add a comment to an Excel cell, it will show you a small red arrow in the upper right corner to indicate there is a comment there. Now you’ll notice that if you try to view the formulas, by pressing CTRL + ~ or by clicking on Show Formulas on the Formulas tab, they will not be visible, however, the results of that formula will remain visible.
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You can enter in a password if you want to prevent people from un-hiding the formulas. You can do this by clicking on the Review tab and then clicking on Protect Sheet. Now click on the Protection tab and check the box that says Hidden.Īs you can see from the message, hiding formulas won’t go into effect until you actually protect the worksheet.
So, for example, I have a sheet with some proprietary formulas that I don’t want anyone to see!įirst, I will select the cells in column F, right-click and choose Format Cells. If you want to hide a formula, you have to do TWO things: set the cells to Hidden and then protect the sheet. Hiding formulas is slightly more complicated than hiding rows, columns, and tabs. For example, if Column B is hidden, you would need to select column A and column C and then right-click and choose Unhide to unhide it. To unhide a row or column, you need to select the row/column before and the row/column after the hidden row/column.
You can easily tell there are hidden rows and columns in Excel because the numbers or letters skip and there are two visible lines shown to indicate hidden columns or rows. To hide a column or multiple columns, you need to right-click on the column letter at the very top. To hide a row or multiple rows, you need to right-click on the row number at the far left. If you want to hide an entire row or column, right-click on the row or column header and then choose Hide. You can also click on the Page Layout tab and uncheck the View box under Gridlines. To hide all gridlines, you can click on the View tab and then uncheck the Gridlines box. When hiding gridlines, you can either hide all gridlines on the entire worksheet or you can hide gridlines for a certain portion of the worksheet.
Hide GridlinesĪ common task in Excel is hiding gridlines to make the presentation of the data cleaner. Also, whatever original value was in the hidden cell will be replaced when typing into the hidden cell. Note that if you type anything into those cells, it will automatically be hidden after you press Enter. To unhide the cells, follow the same procedure above, but this time choose the original format of the cells rather than Custom. You can click on the cell and you should see the cell remains blank, but the data in the cell shows up in the formula bar. On the Number tab, choose Custom at the bottom and enter three semicolons ( ) without the parentheses into the Type box.Ĭlick OK and now the data in those cells is hidden. You can hide entire rows and columns in Excel, which I explain below, but you can only blank out individual cells. Right-click on a cell or multiple selected cells and then click on Format Cells. It can only blank out a cell so that it appears that nothing is in the cell, but it can’t truly “ hide” a cell because if a cell is hidden, what would you replace that cell with? Excel does not have the ability to hide a cell in the traditional sense that they simply disappear until you unhide them, like in the example above with sheets.
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