These features under the Workbook Organization category make it easy to manage the visibility of sheets in Excel, allowing for efficient focus and quick recovery.
Hide Sheets Button
Functionality:
- Action: Hides all the sheets in your active workbook except the currently active sheet.
- Purpose: Allows you to focus on the active sheet by removing distractions from other sheets.
- Behaviour: If only one sheet is present, no action will take place as Excel needs at least one sheet to be visible.
Example:
If your workbook has sheets named:
- Sheet1 (active)
- Sheet2
- Sheet3
Clicking the Hide Sheets button will:
- Hide Sheet2 and Sheet3.
- Keeps Sheet1 visible.
Unhide Sheets Button
Functionality:
- Action: Unhides all hidden sheets in the workbook.
- Purpose: Quickly restores the visibility of all sheets, reversing any prior hiding actions.
- Behaviour: If no sheets are hidden in your workbook, the tool will not take any action.
Example:
If your workbook has:
- Sheet1 (visible)
- Sheet2 (hidden)
- Sheet3 (hidden)
Clicking the Hide Sheets button will:
- Unhide Sheet2 and Sheet3.
- Now all your sheets are visible in the current workbook.
Benefits
- Focus-Driven Workflow: Temporarily hiding unrelated sheets will reduce distractions when you are working on any complex calculations etc.
- Quick Restoration: Instantly unhides all sheets when needed in one click.
- Simplified Management: Eliminates the need for you to manually select the sheets to hide and select one by one to unhide each sheet.
These
features are particularly useful when you are working on large workbooks and
need to focus on a specific sheet or need to hide/unhide sheets very often.