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How to hide picture when hiding rows or columns in Excel?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-12-02

Normally, when you hide columns or rows which contain a picture in a worksheet, the picture will not be hidden as shown in the following screenshot. How can you hide the picture when hiding rows or columns in Excel?

A screenshot showing a picture remaining visible when rows or columns are hidden in Excel

Hide picture when hiding columns or rows with formatting the picture’s property

arrow blue right bubble Hide picture when hiding columns or rows with formatting the picture’s property

In fact, you can change the picture’s property to make the picture hiding with the rows or columns hidden, please do as follows:

1. Right clicking the picture that you want to hide when hiding the rows or columns, and then select Size and Properties from the context menu, see screenshot:

A screenshot of the Size and Properties option in Excel's context menu

2. In the Format Picture pane, under the Size & Properties tab, select Move and size with cells option from the Properties section, see screenshot:

A screenshot of the Format Picture pane with the Move and size with cells option selected

3. And then close the pane, now, when you hide columns or rows which with the picture, the picture will be hidden as well.

A screenshot showing a hidden picture when rows or columns are hidden in Excel

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