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Hide a set of columns
- Feb 01, 2018
Hi James,
You have to use some lines of code to automate this task, you can record all these steps through the https://support.office.com/en-us/article/automate-tasks-with-the-macro-recorder-974ef220-f716-4e01-b015-3ea70e64937b to create a macro of this task so that you can reuse this Macro over and over again!
Anyway, I've created the following two codes for you so that you can save them in the VBA code module, and start using them:
#1 (Applied to all worksheets in the active workbook)
Sub ShowOnlySpecificColumns1() 'Written by Haytham Amairah 'Last Updated: 2/2/2018 'Applied to all worksheets in the active workbook. For Each Sheet In Sheets Cells.Select Selection.EntireColumn.Hidden = True Range("C:C, H:H, N:R, AE:AG, AI:AI, BQ:BR,CM:CO, DB:DB, DE:DF, DN:DO, EB:ED, EG:EG,EJ:EJ, ES:ST") _ .EntireColumn.Hidden = False Next Sheet Range("C1").Select End Sub#2 (Applied to the active worksheet)
Sub ShowOnlySpecificColumns2() 'Written by Haytham Amairah 'Last Updated: 2/2/2018 'Applied to the active worksheet. Cells.Select Selection.EntireColumn.Hidden = True Range("C:C, H:H, N:R, AE:AG, AI:AI, BQ:BR,CM:CO, DB:DB, DE:DF, DN:DO, EB:ED, EG:EG,EJ:EJ, ES:ST") _ .EntireColumn.Hidden = False Range("C1").Select End SubBut I recommend you to save them in the https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-and-save-all-your-macros-in-a-single-workbook-66c97ab3-11c2-44db-b021-ae005a9bc790 so that you can use them in other workbooks and make them available every time you open Excel.
NOTE: The solution above is applied to Excel for Windows, but I think it's also applied to Excel for Mac, please try it and provide me with any feedback.