Hide Inactive Workbooks Through VBA

If you are working on multiple workbooks at the same time, and you need a macro to help you in hiding all the inactive workbooks, then this article will definitely help you.

In this article, we will focus on how we can hide multiple workbooks which you are currently not being used.

Question: I need to quickly hide all the excel files except the one I am currently using so that I can toggle between other applications smoothly. I would like to seek VBA code for this unique requirement of mine.

In order to get the code for hiding all the inactive workbooks, we need to follow the below steps to launch VB editor

Click on Developer tab
From Code group select Visual Basic

Copy the following code in worksheet module

Sub HideInactiveExcelWorkbooks()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Dim aWin As Window
    Set aWin = ActiveWindow
    Dim win As Window
    For Each win In Application.Windows
        win.Visible = False
    Next win
    aWin.Visible = True
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

The above code will hide all the inactive workbooks immediately

Note: the above macro will not hide active workbook.

To unhide all the workbooks, we need to follow the below steps:

Click on View tab
Click on Unhide

This will show the unhide workbooks

Selecting each one & clicking on Ok button will unhide the workbook

Conclusion: We can hide hundreds of workbooks which are not active with a single click using above macro code.

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