In this article, we will learn How to hide cells before printing in Excel.
How to hide cells in Excel
Problem occurs when a user needs to get the print of the page. Let's say The page has error values or many zero values and can be interpreted as blank cells in the printed page. For example hiding the Employee code column before printing the page. For situations like these, we hide cells containing values/text before printing, use one of the following techniques: Note: These techniques only change the font color so that the cell appears invisible, it doesn't edit the data value.
Format Selected cells in Excel
Select all cells, Then switch the font color the same as the background color of the cell. You can achieve this by many ways.
Alternate way using Conditional Formatting
If there are more cells and those cells come under some criteria like contain zero values or contain errors. They use this condition.
Select the whole table > Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule > Use the formula (apply criteria as formula) > Custom Format > Font > Color (Switch to white or same as background color).
Example :
All of these might be confusing to understand. Let's understand how to use the function using an example. Here we have a sample data to print. But it doesn't look good to print. So we need to hide some data which is unnecessary on the table. So we just select the cells as shown in the below table and follow further steps.
Go to Home > Click the arrow option next to A > Click on White Background 1.
Or you can Go to the Format cells dialog box. OPen format dialog box using three ways.
Then Go to Font > Color > drop down color list > Select white.
Alternate way using Conditional Formatting
We use this if you have a large amount of cells to hide in data satisfying some criteria. To make the above method interesting. We can use conditional formatting. Make a new rule in conditional formatting. Use a formula to determine cells to color and now use the font format as transparent or white. Now we learn how we will do it step by step for an example Hiding error values and zero values
Select cells > Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule > Use a formula to determine
Use the formula
| =OR(ISERROR(A1), A1=0) |
OR operator returns True or False and edits only the cells where the formula returns True. Here OR operator returns TRUE only where the cell has error value or contains zero value.
As you can see the data is neat and in a manner of print. So now check the page and layout and click Print. You can use any function or make any formula in a conditional formatting formula box that returns TRUE or FALSE.
Here are all the observational notes using the formula in Excel
Notes :
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