One specific Excel file is entirely grayed out when I open it.

[Raj0212]

Hi,

I'm facing a strange issue. I was working on one of my Excel files (password protected) and suddenly I possibly pressed some button(s) by mistake (not sure), causing the file to vanish from the screen. There were a couple of other open files still working fine though.

When I open that file again giving its password, then it shows that everything is grayed out (pasted below). Even the title bar is not showing the same file name. Then I tried opening other files, and they opened just fine and worked as usual. 

Can anyone help urgently? It has some critical data that I need.

Thanks.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Raj0212 

Try this:

[#3]

Thanks Patrick. It worked (sigh of relief). In fact, I noticed that this "Unhide" button was the only clickable and rest all grayed out :)
Thanks again!

[#4]

Glad it worked. Typically the Hide workbook feature is used with the Personal Macro workbook to give one access to macros but keep the book hidden.

[#5]

Got it!