Remove sheet tab

In my ancient Excel 97, assuming you don't want to work on the sheet too often, I would rename the sheet in question "use the hyperlinks", then I would open it and select White as the font colour for all cells (they won't be able to read anything with values the same colour as the fill) except one saying Please Use the hyperlinks as requested you **** then protect the sheet with a password. As far as I can tell, formulas linked to other sheets will still work. Without the password they won't be able to change the font colour even if they notice that the icon shows white.