Let's say I hide column A in excel or in google doc, how can I unhide it (show column A again). Column A is the most left column. I have column B,C and D etc...
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In Excel, if a column is hidden, the separator line between the column headers is a bit more pronounced, i.e. thicker. To unhide column A, hover over the dark line next to the column B header, right-click an select "Unhide".
Well, on Google Docs you have little > mark to click on and expand hidden colums.
On LibreOffice you can click on the first header to mark all columns and rows and than click on Format/Row(Column)/Show.
I personally don't use excel so I'm guessing it's same as this second example
You can actually select column B and the column with the numbers, then right click and select Unhide.
Click and hold on column B and drag your mouse to the left and you'll have selected B and the column with numbers.
On Google Docs, there's a small triangle in the column to the right (in this case Column B) to unhide. However, if Column B is frozen, then this triangle will be disabled. In this case, select from the menu View -> Freeze Columns -> No frozen columns. After that, the triangle will be enabled again.
(courtesy of this post)
This should really be separated as Excel and G-Sheets are quite different in so many respects, it's not useful to combine them for specific questions like this.
G-Sheets: I was concerned about unhiding the A through C columns in a spreadsheet I've been working on. As I don't know about an interactive code feature as I do in Excel (VBA 'immediate' section), I looked online for an answer, as I often do rather than fumbling around wasting my time looking for a best way when someone else has already found it and taken the time to tell us about it. But to no avail! So, I personally unearthed the following way to unhide the leftmost unclickable (i.e. hidden) columns in G-Sheets, which turns out to be very simple, albeit not obvious to me until I actually saw it. So w/o further ado, here it is:
- click on the down-arrow in the header of leftmost visible column (displays the drop-down context sensitive menu) and select "Unhide columns"
- as the result from step 1 does not scroll leftwards to reveal the now unhidden columns, you'll need to do so in order to see it actually worked.
