# Can I hide selected cells?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-i-hide-selected-cells/1972
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-i-hide-selected-cells/1972 "2019-05-30T18:59:05Z")
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### Author: ![yw5aj](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/yw5aj/32/60_2.png) [@yw5aj](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/yw5aj)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-i-hide-selected-cells/1972/1 "2019-05-30T18:59:05Z")

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Dear all,

In the GUI, I am using Paraview to show a VTK file of a mesh consisting of tetrahedrons. Is there a way that I can hide selected cells? For example, can I change the display alpha of the selected cells?

Best,  
Shawn

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-i-hide-selected-cells/1972/2 "2019-05-30T19:33:57Z")

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Try Find Data, then Invert Selection, then Extract Selection.

Alan

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### Author: ![yw5aj](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/yw5aj/32/60_2.png) [@yw5aj](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/yw5aj)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/can-i-hide-selected-cells/1972/3 "2019-05-31T00:53:54Z")

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It works! Thank you so much.