Excel vba worksheet hidden

This tutorial will teach you how to hide and unhide Worksheets with VBA.

Worksheets("Sheet1").visible = False

or set the Visible property to xlSheetHidden:

Worksheets("Sheet1").visible = xlSheetHidden

This is the same as if the user right-clicked the worksheet tab and selected “hide”.

Unhide Sheet

To unhide a Sheet in VBA, use the worksheet Visible property:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = True

or

Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = xlSheetVisible

Hidden Sheets can be seen by right-clicking in the Worksheet tab area:

Very Hidden Sheets

The Sheet Visible property has a third option: xlSheetVeryHidden:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = xlSheetVeryHidden

Very hidden Sheets are hidden when right-clicking in the Worksheet tab area:

This code will prevent the spreadsheet user from seeing the Worksheet tab at the bottom of the screen. It also hides the Worksheet from the user when they right-click the tabs at the bottom. The only way to see that the Worksheet exists (or unhide the Worksheet) is by opening the Visual Basic Editor.

Unhide Very Hidden Sheets

Very hidden Worksheets are made visible just like regular hidden Worksheets:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = True

or

Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = xlSheetVisible

Hide / Unhide Sheets in the VBA Editor

You can also toggle the Worksheet Visible property within the VBA Editor:

Hide All Worksheet Tabs

You might also want to hide the Worksheet Tab area altogether to prevent the user from navigating to different worksheets. Learn more about hiding worksheet tabs.

Hide / Unhide Sheets in Protected Workbook

Your workbook must be unprotected before you can hide or unhide worksheets.  To unprotect your workbook structure use the following code:

ActiveWorkbook.Unprotect

If your workbook structure is password-protected you must do this instead:

ThisWorkbook.Unprotect "password"

Unhide All Sheets

This procedure will unhide all worksheets in a workbook, using a For Each Loop:

Sub Unhide_All_Sheets()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    
    ActiveWorkbook.Unprotect
    For Each ws In Worksheets
        ws.Visible = xlSheetVisible
    Next
End Sub

Notice that we first unprotect the workbook, just in case it was password protected.

Аннотация

В Microsoft Excel можно скрыть листы в книге, чтобы пользователь не отображал их. В книге можно скрыть лист любого типа, но всегда должен быть виден хотя бы один лист.

Дополнительные сведения

Скрытие листа с помощью команд меню

Чтобы скрыть лист, наведите указатель мыши на пункт «Лист» в меню «Формат» и нажмите кнопку «Скрыть». Чтобы отобразить лист, наведите указатель на пункт «Лист» в меню «Формат» и нажмите кнопку «Отобразить». Выберите соответствующий лист и нажмите кнопку «ОК».

Невозможно скрыть листы модулей, так как они отображаются в редакторе Visual Basic.

Скрытие листа с помощью макроса Visual Basic

Вы также можете скрыть или отобразить лист с помощью макроса Visual Basic для приложений майкрософт. При использовании кода Visual Basic можно использовать свойство xlVeryHidden, чтобы скрыть лист и не отображать его в диалоговом окне «Отобразить». При этом единственный способ снова сделать лист видимым — создать другой макрос Visual Basic.

В макросе Visual Basic используйте свойство Visible, чтобы скрыть или отобразить лист. Для свойства Visible можно задать значение True, False или xlVeryHidden. Значения True и False имеют тот же эффект, что и при использовании команд меню «Отобразить» или «Скрыть». Аргумент xlVeryHidden скрывает лист, а также не отображает диалоговое окно «Отобразить».

Пример кода Visual Basic

Корпорация Майкрософт предоставляет примеры программирования только в целях демонстрации без явной или подразумеваемой гарантии. Данное положение включает, но не ограничивается этим, подразумеваемые гарантии товарной пригодности или соответствия отдельной задаче. Эта статья предполагает, что пользователь знаком с представленным языком программирования и средствами, используемыми для создания и отладки процедур. Инженеры службы поддержки Майкрософт могут помочь объяснить функциональные возможности конкретной процедуры, но они не будут изменять эти примеры, чтобы предоставить дополнительные функциональные возможности или процедуры создания в соответствии с конкретными требованиями. В следующих примерах показано, как использовать свойство Visible объекта Sheet.

В следующем примере показано, как использовать аргумент xlVeryHidden свойства Visible для скрытия листа:

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In keeping with our recent theme of making workbooks easier to navigate (hiding columns, deleting columns), this post will take a look at the .Visible property of sheets and its three possible values. This property lets you hide and unhide sheets with its three options: True, xlSheetHidden, and xlSheetVeryHidden.

Knowing how to hide sheets with VBA is valuable if you need to clean up the user interface or protect calculations to prevent accidental modification.

The Usual Boolean Property

You may have noticed that many VBA object properties are Booleans. This means they can only be True or False . Common Boolean properties include .Hidden for columns/rows, font properties like Font.Bold , and text properties like Cells.WrapText . These can only take Boolean values, and that intuitively makes sense. How can the Bold property of a font be any value other than True or False?

To determine whether a property is likely Boolean, you can ask the simple question “Is the object property ?” For example, “is the font bold?” or “is the column hidden?”. If the answer is naturally yes/no, then it’s most likely a Boolean property.

The [Sheet].Visible property surely fits this heuristic: is Sheet1 visible? It is natural to answer this question with a yes or no. To complicate it even more, the values True and False can certainly be assigned to the sheet object’s .Visible property. You can hide a sheet using the [Immediate window] (press Ctrl+g in the VBE to open it) by executing this code:

and Sheet1 will be hidden from view in the tabs at the bottom of the Excel window. To show it again, set the property to True:

and Sheet1 will reappear.

If you have Intellisense enabled — which I recommend for everyone, but especially those learning VBA — you might have noticed that [Sheet].Visible does not display True and False as its options, though.

The Unhide Dialogue

One reason to hide sheets is to clean up the interface so it’s easier for users to navigate. This applies to complex workbooks wherein a single sheet handles inputs and a single sheet for results suffices to satisfy user needs, while perhaps 5 sheets store useful historical data and 3 set up and perform calculations. The 8 data and processing sheets are not really necessary for the user, and it can clutter up the display or even confuse inexperienced users.

By right-clicking on the sheets group at the bottom of the Excel window, users can look at hidden sheets. That is, they can see a list of sheets whose .Visible property is set to False . They can then unhide those sheets to look at or change them.

The Unhide Dialogue, which lists hidden sheets and allows the user to re-display them

What if you want to make sheets more hidden? For example, if you want to prevent users from accidentally — or maliciously — changing formulas. To do this, we can use the third legal value for the .Visible property of sheets, xlSheetVeryHidden .

Hiding Sheets More Thoroughly

To avoid issues with curious users who may want to see what sheets are hidden, you can use VBA to obscure especially sensitive sheets from a GUI-user’s view. Instead of setting the .Visible property to False (which is the same as setting it to xlSheetHidden ), you can set it to a third value: xlSheetVeryHidden . This makes the sheet invisible not only on the tab tray but also in the Unhide Dialogue, so users can’t even unhide it that way.

Hide the sheet graphically in VBE with the Properties window (usually shortcutted via F4 while the VBE is open). Change the Visible property manually via the red box here:

The Properties Window for Sheet1 with Visible property highlighted

Or, of course, you can set the .Visible property in code:

This example uses the VBA CodeName Sheet1 to hide the sheet, but you could also spell out the sheet name, like Sheets(«Sheet1») .

The only way for a Very Hidden sheet to be unhidden is through the VBA editor. For less-skilled users, they might not even know how to enable the Developer tab, while others may not know how to use VBA. This certainly is not a secure solution against an adept attacker, but it will likely keep most coworkers and clients from unhiding and inadvertently breaking sheets.

There are shorter ways to make a sheet very hidden, though. The value xlSheetVeryHidden is the same as xlVeryHidden , just like a value False is the same as a value of xlSheetHidden , which is the same as a value of xlHidden . You can use whichever nomenclature you like!

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Protecting from Prying Eyes

If you want, you can set passwords on VBA Projects through the Tools > VBAProject Properties. menu item (blue box below). On the Protection tab, add your password and check the Lock project for viewing checkbox (red box). When you close the Excel file and re-open it, the project will be collapsed in the Project Explorer window and no one will be able to view the object properties or code modules without entering the password.

Password Protection Window with VBAProject Properties

A Note on Security

If you’re worried about users maliciously changing the sheets or stealing intellectual property, using a password to protect the project is not very secure. If you have highly sensitive data on hidden sheets, I’d recommend another approach. If you are simply comparing inputs, at least store hashed data instead of plaintext. If you need to operate on the data, consider a database connection that Excel can query every time it needs to operate on the data.

For most office applications, a very high level of security is not necessary, and password protecting your VBA project will suffice. If you need more security on your spreadsheets, I typically recommend Unviewable+. It’s not invincible, but it does a good job protecting against the most common hacking techniques.

Hopefully this tutorial taught you how to hide, unhide, and make sheets very hidden using VBA. It may have surprised you that .Visible is not a Boolean property, since most properties are. With a Very Hidden sheet, you can stop some curious users from seeing sensitive information or accidentally changing formulas on sheets for calculations.

If you want, you can even password protect your VBA projects now, but bear in mind that a weak password may be easily broken. And if you have to protect data from truly malicious actors, I would recommend another approach. The average curious office user, though, will likely be thwarted by password protection and Very Hidden sheets.

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Have you ever been frustrated because you cannot find the sheet an Excel calculation is referring to? It’s not a variable listed in the name manager, it’s not hidden in the normal manner, so where on earth could it be! I give you Excel’s “very hidden” worksheets. Sneaky, no?

In actual fact a worksheet can be visible, hidden or very hidden. Before we look at very hidden sheets, though, let’s go over the basics.

Hiding / Unhiding a sheet – the basics

Hiding a sheet from view is actually very easy. Simply right click on the tab and choose the “Hide” option.

To make the sheet visible again, click on any of the remaining tabs and click on “Unhide…” Of course, if no tabs are hidden this option will be greyed out (unavailable). It will also appear greyed out if you have set a sheet / sheets to be very hidden, making it more difficult for a user to access or edit important calculations for example on this very hidden sheet.

To make a worksheet very hidden or to make it visible again (in Excel 2010), you will need to access the Visual Basic Editor via the developers tab on the ribbon. First if you haven’t got the developer tab visible on your ribbon, you will need to make it visible. Step 1 of this previous article shows you how to do this.

Once the developer tab is visible, click on the “Visual Basic” button.

This will open the Visual Basic Editor.

If the “Properties window” is not already open, click on “View” > “Properties Window” or press the function key F4.

This will open up the window as shown below:

In the project window above the properties window, click on the sheet you want to make “Very Hidden”. In my example, I have chosen sheet 2 as shown in the picture above. The very last property of the sheet, is the visible property. There are three possible options. Click once on the value of the Visible property to see the drop down arrow to access the different options.

To make the sheet “Very Hidden”, choose the last option “2 – xlSheetVeryHidden”. To make a very hidden sheet visible again, choose “-1 – xlSheetVisible”. The second option “0 – xlSheetHidden” simply hides the sheet. You can make it visible again by right clicking on any of the excel tabs and choosing “Unhide…” as shown earlier.

Remember: when a sheet is very hidden you cannot see it except in the Visual Basic Editor. A user of the sheet cannot right click a tab and see it listed among the other sheets that are simply hidden.

If you are familiar with vba, you can of course use the following code to change the Visible property of a sheet instead.

To make a sheet very hidden: Sheets(«SheetName«).Visible = xlVeryHidden»

To make a sheet hidden: Sheets(«SheetName«).Visible = xlHidden»

To make a sheet visible: Sheets(«SheetName«).Visible = True»

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VBA Sheets – The Ultimate Guide

In this Article

This is the ultimate guide to working with Excel Sheets / Worksheets in VBA.

At the bottom of this guide, we’ve created a cheat sheet of common commands for working with sheets.

Sheets Vs. Worksheets

There are two ways to reference Sheets using VBA. The first is with the Sheets object:

The other is with the Worksheets object:

99% of the time, these two objects are identical. In fact, if you’ve searched online for VBA code examples, you’ve probably seen both objects used. Here is the difference:

The Sheets Collection contains Worksheets AND Chart Sheets.

So use Sheets if you want to include regular Worksheets AND Chart Sheets. Use Worksheets if you want to exclude Chart Sheets. For the rest of this guide we will use Sheets and Worksheets interchangeably.

Referencing Sheets

There are several different ways to reference Sheets:

• ActiveSheet
• Sheet Tab Name
• Sheet Index Number
• Sheet Code Name

ActiveSheet

The ActiveSheet is the Sheet that’s currently active. In other words, if you paused your code and looked at Excel, it’s the sheet that is visible. The below code example will display a MessageBox with the ActiveSheet name.

Sheet Name

You are probably most familiar with referencing Sheets by their Tab Name:

This is the sheet name that’s visible to Excel users. Enter it into the sheets object, as a string of text, surrounded by quotations.

Sheet Index Number

The Sheet Index number is the sheet position in the workbook. 1 is the first sheet. 2 is the second sheet etc.:

Sheet Index Number – Last Sheet in Workbook

To reference the last Sheet in the workbook, use Sheets.Count to get the last Index Number and activate that sheet:

Sheet “Code Name”

The Sheet Code Name is it’s Object name in VBA:

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Referencing Sheets in Other Workbooks

It’s also easy to reference Sheets in other Workbooks. To do so, you need to use the Workbooks Object:

Important: The Workbook must be open before you can reference its Sheets.

Activate vs. Select Sheet

In another article we discuss everything about activating and selecting sheets. The short version is this:

When you Activate a Sheet it becomes the ActiveSheet. This is the sheet you would see if you looked at your Excel program. Only one sheet may be activate at a time.

Activate a Sheet

When you select a Sheet, it also becomes the ActiveSheet. However, you can select multiple sheets at once. When multiple sheets are selected at once, the “top” sheet is the ActiveSheet. However, you can toggle the ActiveSheet within selected sheets.

Select a Sheet

Select Multiple Sheets

Use an array to select multiple sheets at once:

Worksheet Variable

Assigning a worksheet to an object variable allows you to reference the worksheet by it’s variable name. This can save a lot of typing and make your code easier to read. There are also many other reasons you might want to use variables.

To declare a worksheet variable:

Assign a worksheet to a variable:

Now you can reference the worksheet variable in your code:

Loop Through All Sheets in Workbook

Worksheet variables are useful when you want to loop through all the worksheets in a workbook. The easiest way to do this is:

This code will loop through all worksheets in the workbook, displaying each worksheet name in a message box. Looping through all the sheets in a workbook is very useful when locking / unlocking or hiding / unhiding multiple worksheets at once.

Worksheet Protection

Workbook Protection

Workbook protection locks the workbook from structural changes like adding, deleting, moving, or hiding worksheets.

You can turn on workbook protection using VBA:

or disable workbook protection:

Note: You can also protect / unprotect without a password by omitting the Password argument:

Worksheet Protection

Worksheet-level protection prevents changes to individual worksheets.

Protect Worksheet

Unprotect Worksheet

There are a variety of options when protecting worksheets (allow formatting changes, allow user to insert rows, etc.) We recommend using the Macro Recorder to record your desired settings.

We discuss worksheet protection in more detail here.

Worksheet Visible Property

You might already know that worksheets can be hidden:

There are actually three worksheet visibility settings: Visible, Hidden, and VeryHidden. Hidden sheets can be unhidden by any regular Excel user – by right-clicking in the worksheet tab area (shown above). VeryHidden sheets can only be unhidden with VBA code or from within the VBA Editor. Use the following code examples to hide / unhide worksheets:

Unhide Worksheet

Hide Worksheet

Very Hide Worksheet

Worksheet-Level Events

Events are triggers that can cause “Event Procedures” to run. For example, you can cause code to run every time any cell on a worksheet is changed or when a worksheet is activated.

Worksheet event procedures must be placed in a worksheet module:

There are numerous worksheet events. To see a complete list, go to a worksheet module , select “Worksheet” from the first drop-down. Then selecting an event procedure from the second drop-down to insert it into the module.

Worksheet Activate Event

Worksheet activate events run each time the worksheet is opened.

This code will select cell A1 (resetting the view area to the top-left of the worksheet) each time the worksheet is opened.

Worksheet Change Event

Worksheet change events run whenever a cell value is changed on the worksheet. Read our tutorial about Worksheet Change Events for more information.

Worksheet Cheat Sheet

Below you will find a cheat sheet containing common code examples for working with sheets in VBA

VBA Worksheets Cheatsheet

VBA worksheets Cheatsheet

Description	Code Example
Referencing and Activating Sheets
Tab Name	Sheets(«Input»).Activate
VBA Code Name	Sheet1.Activate
Index Position	Sheets(1).Activate
Select Sheet
Select Sheet	Sheets(«Input»).Select
Set to Variable	Dim ws as Worksheet Set ws = ActiveSheet
Name / Rename	ActiveSheet.Name = «NewName»
Next Sheet	ActiveSheet.Next.Activate
Loop Through all Sheets	Dim ws as Worksheet

For each ws in Worksheets
Msgbox ws.name
Next ws Loop Through Selected Sheets Dim ws As Worksheet

For Each ws In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
MsgBox ws.Name
Next ws Get ActiveSheet MsgBox ActiveSheet.Name Add Sheet Sheets.Add Add Sheet and Name Sheets.Add.Name = «NewSheet» Add Sheet With Name From Cell Sheets.Add.Name = range(«a3»).value Add Sheet After Another Sheets.Add After:=Sheets(«Input») Add Sheet After and Name Sheets.Add(After:=Sheets(«Input»)).Name = «NewSheet» Add Sheet Before and Name Sheets.Add(Before:=Sheets(«Input»)).Name = «NewSheet» Add Sheet to End of Workbook Sheets.Add After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count) Add Sheet to Beginning of Workbook Sheets.Add(Before:=Sheets(1)).Name = «FirstSheet» Add Sheet to Variable Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = Sheets.Add Copy Worksheets Move Sheet to End of Workbook Sheets(«Sheet1»).Move After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count) To New Workbook Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy Selected Sheets To New Workbook ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Copy Before Another Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy Before:=Sheets(«Sheet2») Before First Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy Before:=Sheets(1) After Last Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count) Copy and Name Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
ActiveSheet.Name = «LastSheet» Copy and Name From Cell Value Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
ActiveSheet.Name = Range(«A1»).Value To Another Workbook Sheets(«Sheet1»).Copy Before:=Workbooks(«Example.xlsm»).Sheets(1) Hide / Unhide Sheets Hide Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).visible = False
or
Sheets(«Sheet1»).visible = xlSheetHidden Unhide Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Visible = True
or
Sheets(«Sheet1»).Visible = xlSheetVisible Very Hide Sheet Sheets(“Sheet1”).Visible = xlSheetVeryHidden Delete or Clear Sheets Delete Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Delete Delete Sheet (Error Handling) On Error Resume Next
Sheets(«Sheet1»).Delete
On Error GoTo 0 Delete Sheet (No Prompt) Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Sheets(«Sheet1»).Delete
Application.DisplayAlerts = True Clear Sheet Sheets(«Sheet1»).Cells.Clear Clear Sheet Contents Only Sheets(«Sheet1»).Cells.ClearContents Clear Sheet UsedRange Sheets(«Sheet1»).UsedRange.Clear Protect or Unprotect Sheets Unprotect (No Password) Sheets(«Sheet1»).Unprotect Unprotect (Password) Sheets(«Sheet1»).Unprotect «Password» Protect (No Password) Sheets(«Sheet1»).Protect Protect (Password) Sheets(«Sheet1»).Protect «Password» Protect but Allow VBA Access Sheets(«Sheet1»).Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True Unprotect All Sheets Dim ws As Worksheet

For Each ws In Worksheets
ws.Unprotect «password»
Next ws

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