How to temporarily hide rows and columns in Excel 2013

Instructions on how to temporarily hide and make appear again in one or more rows / columns in the Microsoft Excel 2013 spreadsheet.

Excel 2013 has a feature that allows temporary users to hide one or more rows / columns in an Excel spreadsheet. This feature is very useful in case you only want to print a part of the spreadsheet but do not want to delete other excess rows and columns.

Note: Cells in hidden rows and columns are still included in the table calculations.

Hide one or more rows

Select the rows you want to hide.

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Right-click on one of the selected row titles, select 'Hide' from the menu (menu) that appears.

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The selected rows will be pressed, including the row title.

Note that rows 3 and 4 in the picture below are hidden. Separating between rows 2 and 5 (where hidden rows are located) is a bold line. When you perform other operations on the spreadsheet, this bold line will disappear. However, you can identify locations of hidden rows by viewing which row titles are missing.

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To reappear a row, you must select the row above and the row below the hidden rows. In this case, row 2 and row 5. Then right-click on the title of the selected row, press 'Unhide' from the menu that appears.

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Hidden rows will reappear and be marked with the surrounding rows.

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Hide one or more columns

You can also easily hide one or more columns. Select the columns you want to hide, right-click one of the column headers, select 'Hide' from the menu that appears.

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The selected columns will disappear with the column header. The position of the pressed column is marked with a bold line.

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To reappear hidden columns, like with hidden rows, select the columns on the left and right of the hidden columns, right-click one of the column headers, select 'Unhide' from the menu appear.

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Hidden columns will reappear and be marked with the columns on the left and right of it.

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