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How to show the Navigation Pane in Excel?

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We can go through documents by headings, pages, or images with Navigation Pane in Microsoft Word easily. However, it seems hard to find out similar tool in Excel. Is there such a Navigation pane in Microsoft Excel, so that we can locate workbooks, worksheets, or names in Excel quickly? You should try the "Navigation Pane" tool of Kutools for Excel.

Note: To apply this Navigation Pane feature, firstly, you should download and install Kutools for Excel.

What the Navigation Pane can help you

Easily show or hide the Navigation Pane in Excel

Navigation Pane will help you work conveniently

Navigation Pane of Kutools

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The "Navigation Pane" tool will insert a navigation pane similar to that in Microsoft Word at the left by default. With it, you can navigate through workbooks, sheets, columns, and names of ranges. In addition, it will list all opened workbooks if you open more than one workbook together.

  • Navigate to each opened workbook quickly
  • Navigate to each worksheet of all opened workbooks
  • Navigate to each column of all opened workbooks
  • Navigate to each named range of all opened workbooks

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The navigation pane will display immediately after you click the "Navigation" button in the "View" group under the "Kutools" tab. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Navigation Pane button under the Kutools tab in Excel

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1. You can close workbooks in the navigation pane directly by clicking the close button behind them if there is more than one opened workbook. It is not necessary to find out corresponding workbook windows from the taskbar anymore.

2. The navigation pane will update listed sheets, columns, names, and workbooks automatically if you add, modify, or delete them.

3. You can switch between two latest used worksheets in a workbook quickly by clicking the switch button.

4. Resize the pane by dragging the right border of the pane to the size you like.

Tip: To use the Navigation Pane feature, you should install Kutools for Excel first, please click to download Kutools for Excel now.

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