# Is it posible to turn the turn the visibility of a whole layer off?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-posible-to-turn-the-turn-the-visibility-of-a-whole-layer-off/190209>\
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**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-posible-to-turn-the-turn-the-visibility-of-a-whole-layer-off/190209 "2006-06-09T14:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Porter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Porter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Porter)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-posible-to-turn-the-turn-the-visibility-of-a-whole-layer-off/190209/1 "2006-06-09T14:42:49Z")

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I kniow you can set the visibility of individual symbols in a layer by targeting their instance names, but is it possible to target the whole layer?