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Unhide any hidden rows that intersect the current selection.

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Unhide any hidden columns that intersect the current selection.

Notes:

(1) May not work in Excel 2010 on Vista or Windows 7. Discussion and fix is here: http://superuser.com/questions/183197/whats-the-keyboard-shortcut-to-unhide-a-column-in-excel-2010

(2) May not work in Excel 2007. See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/office-solution-keyboard-shortcuts-for-hiding-and-unhiding-columns-and-rows/

(3) In Windows 10, there is a conflict with a keyboard-switching shortcut. You can resolve this by unassigning the keyboard layout hot key. You may need to unassign the input language as well.

Windows 10 Change Key Sequence hotkey dialog box - 1

This is a tricky setting to find. You are looking for Advanced Keyboard Settings, under Region and Language.

Update June 2021: if the shortcut stops working after a Windows update, try assigning and then unassigning the switch keyboard layout.

Update February 2022: Can’t get the above trick to work. Let us know if you find a solution.