I have the following problem: I need to set a worksheet so the user can
choose to view/print it with or without the cells containing exhaustive
explanations. (Those cells are NOT in a single bundle...)

Is there a way, (say, with a button or another macro), that I could set
this worksheet to hide or unhide preselected rows so the user can switch
from one view to another in a single simple operation?

(Any suggestion is welcome: I need all available options.)

THANKS!

For those who wants to know the purpose: it is a compliance matrix
(checklist-like) with design requirements. The cells that need to be
set are the ones containing secondary information regarding each of the
requirements. (The "simple" view should allow to shorten the list
considerably, without loosing the information.)


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A macro should do this for you!

Click on Tools|Macro|Record new macro, call your macro something descriptive
such as simpleview. Now hide all the rows which you do not want to display.
when done, click on End recording. Create another macro, call it say
completeview, select the range containing the hidden rows, click on
Format|Row and select unhide, then click on end recording. Create two
buttons, one for the simple view, and one for the complete view, and tie the
macros to these buttons.

"Turquoise_dax" wrote:


I have the following problem: I need to set a worksheet so the user can
choose to view/print it with or without the cells containing exhaustive
explanations. (Those cells are NOT in a single bundle...)

Is there a way, (say, with a button or another macro), that I could set
this worksheet to hide or unhide preselected rows so the user can switch
from one view to another in a single simple operation?

(Any suggestion is welcome: I need all available options.)

THANKS!

For those who wants to know the purpose: it is a compliance matrix
(checklist-like) with design requirements. The cells that need to be
set are the ones containing secondary information regarding each of the
requirements. (The "simple" view should allow to shorten the list
considerably, without loosing the information.)


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It sesm to works fine, but there is a problem I cannot solve:

When recording the macro for the summary view, I hide the rows I want
the button to hide, but after I stopped the recording and assigned the
macro to the button, when I hit it, lots of rows are hidding which I
did not select when recording.

I tried 3 times: always the same result. What do I do wrong?


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I have another problem with this method: if I change the content of one
cell, it simply goes back to the previous version if I use the buttons.
What can I do to make sure the data inside the cell doesn't go away?

(For instance, if I change the content of a cell that gets hidden by
the "summary view" button, and then I hit "summary view" and "complete
view", the cell is back to how it was when I created the macro, even if
I saved after changing the content.)


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