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MS Excel 2016: Unhide column A

This Excel tutorial explains how to unhide column A (ie: first column in the sheet) in Excel 2016 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

Before trying the following solution, you might want to make sure that you don't have any frozen panes that you need to unfreeze:

Question: How do I unhide column A in a sheet in Microsoft Excel 2016?

Answer: As you can see, the first column (ie: column A) is hidden in the spreadsheet.

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To unhide the first column, select the Home tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. In the Editing group, click on the Find & Select button and select "Go To..." from the popup menu.

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When the Go To window appears, enter A1 in the Reference field and click on the OK button.

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Select the Home tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Select Cells > Format > Hide & Unhide > Unhide Columns.

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Now column A should be unhidden in your Excel spreadsheet.

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