Formula bar is one of the nice feature in Excel to display the formula and helps when editing the formula in a cell. There might be situations when you want to hide the formula bar in Microsoft Excel 2016.

How to show or hide formula bar in Microsoft Excel 2016 ?

There are couple of ways in which you can hide the formula bar in Microsoft Excel.

Option 1 : View Tab

Just Navigate to the View Tab in the Microsoft Excel 2016 Ribbon and uncheck the checkbox “Formula Bar” in the Show section.

Option 2 : Excel Options

You can also hide the Formula Bar via the Excel Options dialog.

Just Navigate to File –> Options.

In the Excel Options Dialog , select “Advanced” from the left sidebar. In the content pane , uncheck the checkbox “Show Formula bar” under the Display Section.

To show the formula bar , just enable the checkbox back from the above options.