XL 2010: Can’t Unhide Worksheets in a w/b ??

Hello;
1. The XL 2003 w/b works fine in XL 2010. It has a number of worksheets which I’d hidden a while back.
I’m trying to unhide those hidden sheets to re-examine and/or improve the computations there, but I’m unable to make any of those sheets visible.
I probably did something tricky some years ago to hide those sheets so I woldn't mess-up with them in the future, and now I’m absolutely stuck!
2. The w/b is not protected, nor any of the unhidden worksheets.
When right-click any of of the visible sheets, most of the options are grayed out (incl. Hide and Unhide). The only available options are: “View Code”, “Protect Sheet”, and “Select All Sheets” (which selects the visible sheets).
3. In the VBAProject pane, I can see ALL the hidden and unhidden sheets in the w/b.
Selected one of the hidden worksheets. The Properties pane showed its “Visible” property as “0-XlSheetHidden”.
Changed the property to “-1-XlSheetVisible”, got the VBA error msg:
Unable to set the visible property of the Worksheet class.”
Even out of curiosity when I tried to reverse the “visible” property of a visible sheet, I got the same VBA error.
Your advice and help would be greatly appreciated and acknowledged
Monir
(New to both: XL 2010 & Win 7 Pro)
Answer
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It seems to me that you have protected the workbook for structure. To unprotect the workbook goto the Rewiev tab > Protect workbook > Protect Structure and Windows > Enter password if required

 

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Last updated August 5, 2023 Views 21,642 Applies to: