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Excel 2016: Unhide Rows or Columns

Excel 2016: Unhide Rows or Columns

By Mitch Bartlett 8 Comments

If you can’t see certain rows or columns in Microsoft Excel 2016, it may be because they are hidden. Here’s how to unhide rows or columns.

  1. Select the columns or rows that are before and after the one you would like to unhide.
    Select Columns
  2. Select the “Home” tab.
  3. In the “Cells” area, select “Format” > “Hide & Unhide” > “Unhide Columns” or “Unhide Rows” as desired.
    Select unhide columns
  4.  The column or row should now be unhidden.
    Hidden columns are displayed

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Excel 2016

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Comments

  1. Linda says

    July 2, 2020 at 4:50 am

    Thank you to those who mentioned the unfreeze. That worked!

  2. Peter de Bruijn says

    February 20, 2018 at 11:35 am

    I agree with the first comment w/r/t the freeze option

  3. Tom says

    November 3, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    Agreed with the other posts that my issue was a combination of unhide plus unfreeze panes. With the panes still frozen the rows and colums would not unhide. Seems like MSFT needs to make it easier to prompt users somehow, or have the unhide override the freeze panes issue. It took me quite a while to figure this out and I’ve been using Excel for 10+ years.

  4. Aaron Arutunian says

    October 25, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    Thank you Brad! I too had to “Unfreeze Panes” before i could see column A.

  5. Brad Dyer says

    June 27, 2016 at 8:39 am

    Stuart’s tip did not work for me, however, when I selected all rows & columns, clicked on ‘View’ tab, then clicked on Freeze Panes, and had the option to unfreeze. That worked!

  6. Susan says

    June 7, 2016 at 8:47 am

    Stuart’s tip worked for unhiding rows. I had already tried, unsuccessfully, to unhide the typical way and tips from other posts.

    Thank you Stuart!

  7. Stuart says

    April 4, 2016 at 11:18 am

    Here’s the simple way, using shortcut

    Ctrl + Shift + 0 => to unhide the hidden columns within the selection
    Ctrl + Shift + 9 => to unhide the hidden rows within the selection
    Ctrl + 0 => to hide the selected columns
    Ctrl + 9 => to hide the selected rows

    I’ve tried it and works in excel 2007, 2010 and 2013.

  8. Barton says

    March 1, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    Does not seem to work when columns A to E are hidden and cells F1 to H1 are merged.

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