Productivity
October 28, 2025
8 min read

10x Your Productivity with Bulk Operations in Google Sheets

Stop doing repetitive actions sheet by sheet. Learn how to select many tabs and perform bulk actions like hide, color, protect, copy, move, and more—fast.

Joseph Asinyo

Joseph Asinyo

Google Workspace Consultant

8 min read

Working in a Google Sheets file with dozens of tabs can eat time quickly if you handle each sheet one by one. With bulk operations in Sheets Organizer, you select multiple sheets and apply the same action to all of them at once.

Step 1: Select Many Sheets in Seconds

Start by selecting the sheets you want to act on. You can pick individual tabs or use Select All in the sidebar to choose every sheet in the file. Folders can be selected too to target all sheets inside.

Select multiple sheets
Select individual sheets or use Select All
  • Individual Selection: Click the checkbox on each sheet
  • Select All: Choose every sheet in one click
  • Select Folders: Apply actions to all sheets within selected folders

Declutter Fast: Hide, Unhide, or Show Only Selected

Clear the noise and focus. Hide several sheets at once, bring them back with Unhide, or instantly hide everything except the tabs you need with Show only selected.

Hide multiple sheets
Hide several sheets at once

When you're ready to bring them back, unhide multiple sheets in a single step.

Unhide multiple sheets
Restore visibility in one action

For distraction‑free work, hide everything except your current selection with one click.

Show only selected sheets
Hide everything except what you need

Visual Organization at Scale: Color Multiple Sheets

Apply one color to many tabs in a single action. Use consistent colors for teams, projects, or statuses so related sheets stand out immediately.

Color multiple sheets
Apply one color to many tabs

Control Access: Restrict Editing, Show Warning, or Unprotect

Protect multiple sheets together, add a warning prompt before edits, or remove protection in bulk. These safeguards help keep important tabs safe without repetitive steps.

Restrict editing on multiple sheets
Protect several sheets together

Use a lighter touch by enabling a warning prompt across selected sheets.

Show warning on edit
Warn before edits across selected sheets

If you need to lift restrictions, unprotect all selected sheets at once.

Unprotect multiple sheets
Remove protection in bulk

Clean Up in One Click: Delete Multiple Sheets

When it’s time to tidy up, remove many sheets at once instead of deleting them one by one.

Delete multiple sheets
Remove many sheets in one go

Duplicate at Scale: Copy to One or Many Spreadsheets

Create duplicates of selected sheets in the current file, copy to one or more existing spreadsheets, or generate new spreadsheets and send copies there—all at once.

Duplicate selected sheets right inside the same spreadsheet.

Copy to current spreadsheet
Duplicate selected sheets here

Send copies to one or several existing spreadsheets in Drive.

Copy to existing spreadsheets
Send copies to multiple files

Create a brand‑new spreadsheet and copy the selected sheets there.

Copy to a new spreadsheet
Create a new file with copies

Need many new files at once? Create multiple spreadsheets—one per selected sheet.

Copy to multiple new spreadsheets
Each selected sheet goes to its own new file

Reorganize Quickly: Move Sheets to New or Existing Files

Relocate selected sheets to other spreadsheets in bulk. Create a new file and move them there, choose existing files, or create multiple new files—one per sheet—in a single flow.

Move selected sheets into existing destination spreadsheets—no manual dragging needed.

Move to existing spreadsheets
Relocate selected sheets to other files

Spin up a fresh spreadsheet and move your selected sheets into it.

Move to new spreadsheet
Create a new file and move sheets

Create multiple new spreadsheets at once—each receiving one of the selected sheets.

Move to multiple new spreadsheets
Each selected sheet moves to its own file

Practical Examples

  • Monthly close: Select all monthly tabs and color them green to mark ‘Final’.
  • Team handoff: Copy a set of template sheets to several existing client spreadsheets at once.
  • Access control: Protect all sensitive sheets together with Restrict editing.
  • Focus mode: Show only selected to hide everything except this week’s working tabs.
  • Cleanup: Delete outdated draft sheets in one action.

Why This 10x’s Your Workflow

  • Fewer clicks: One action replaces dozens of repetitive steps.
  • Consistency: Apply the exact same change across many tabs.
  • Speed: Select once, act once, and move on.
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