Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Unhiding Multiple Worksheets.
When you choose to hide worksheets in a workbook, Excel allows you to hide multiple sheets with one action: all you need to do is select the sheets before actually doing the hiding. Unhiding worksheets is a different story, however. Excel only allows you to unhide one at a time. If you have many worksheets you want to unhide, this can be very tedious.
The only way around this is to use a macro to unhide the worksheets. The following VBA macro will unhide all the worksheets in the current workbook:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub UnhideAllSheets()
Dim wsSheet As Worksheet
For Each wsSheet In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
wsSheet.Visible = xlSheetVisible
Next wsSheet
End Sub
If you would rather not unhide all the worksheets at once, you can cause the macro to ask about each hidden worksheet and then unhide each that you agree to unhide. The following macro will handle this task:
Sub UnhideSomeSheets()
Dim sSheetName As String
Dim sMessage As String
Dim Msgres As VbMsgBoxResult
For Each wsSheet In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
If wsSheet.Visible = xlSheetHidden Then
sSheetName = wsSheet.Name
sMessage = "Unhide the following sheet?" _
& vbNewLine & sSheetName
Msgres = MsgBox(sMessage, vbYesNo)
If Msgres = vbYes Then wsSheet.Visible = xlSheetVisible
End If
Next wsSheet
End Sub
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2019-12-14 09:38:34
Roy Taylor
I have found the free "Excel Utilities" that you prompted in one of your other tips a useful aid. APSPRO.COM
It has a button that does what this tip is all about and unhides all hidden sheets.
There are lots of other features that I still have to investigate but for this feature alone it is worth the down load.
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