Cell Definition?

Expert's,
Is there any possibality to hide the left most column,ie A,B....Please remember A,B ..are all structures and formulae.
Region         Sales  Customer Vendor
A           10   20            30
B          5 0   70             80

Hi Vasu,
Please don't post the same issue twice:  Re: 3 queries in Web template ?

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