How to unhide Microsoft Excel personal workbook 

A personal workbook in Excel is a hidden workbook that serves as a personal macro storage for an individual user. It is designed to store VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros, custom functions, and other Excel-related automation codes that can be accessed across multiple workbooks or Excel sessions.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to unhide Microsoft Excel personal workbook. To unhide a personal workbook, one can simply utilize the View tab. Another approach is to utilize the File Explorer to view the personal workbook.

Method 1: Utilizing the View Tab

Step 1 – Open an Excel Workbook

• Open any Excel workbook.

Step 2 – Locate the “View” tab.

• Locate the View tab in the menu bar.

Step 3 – Perform a Click on the Unhide Button

• Perform a click on the “Unhide” button in the Window section.
• Choose the personal workbook and perform a click on OK.

Method 2: Utilizing the File Explorer

Step 1 – Open the File Explorer

• Open the File Explorer in Windows.

Step 2 – Navigate to the XLSTART Folder

• Navigate to the Excel start folder.

C:\Users\<Your Username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART.

Step 3 – Open the XLSTART Folder to View the Personal Workbook

• Open the XLSTART folder.
• The personal workbook will be located inside the XLSTART folder.
• Double-click on the personal workbook to open and view the workbook.