How can I hide a full column in Excel worksheet without deleting it? If you don’t want others to see a specific row or avoid printing a certain column, you can hide the entire row or column in Excel 2016.

Part 1: Hide a Whole Row or Column in Excel 2016

1. Open the spreadsheet in Excel 2016.
2. Select the whole row you want to hide by clicking the row number. If you wish to hide an entire column, click the column letter to select it.
3. Right-click the selected row or column, and then click the Hide option.

   

4. The selected row or column will be hidden from view straight away. But you’ll see double lines at column or row headers, which indicates a column or row is hidden.

   

Part 2: Unhide a Whole Row or Column in Excel 2016

To unhide a row, just select the row above and the row below the hidden row. Since row 3 is hidden, we want to select rows 2 to 4. Then, right-click on the selection and click Unhide from the popup menu.

To unhide a column, select the columns before and after the hidden columns. Right-click the selected column headers and pick Unhide.

Part 3: Quickly Unhide All Hidden Rows or Columns

If you want to unhide all rows or columns on a sheet, make sure the whole worksheet is selected.

Then press Ctrl + Shift + 9 keyboard combination to unhide all rows, or press Ctrl + Shift + 0 to show all hidden columns.