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Remove-Blank-Cells-in-Excel<\/a>Download File<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Deleting a value inside a cell is easy, just click a cell and press delete. But how you can delete a cell that has no value, in other words, the blank cells?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how you can remove blank cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the following example, where you have a list of values with some empty cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selecting blank cells<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First, you have to select a range of cells and then navigate to Home >> Editing >> Find & Select >> <\/strong>Go to Special<\/a>. From the Go To Special<\/strong> window choose Blanks<\/strong> and click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the blank cells are now selected (A1<\/strong>, A4<\/strong>, A6<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, navigate to Home >> Cells >> Delete >> Delete Cells<\/strong>. Alternatively, you can use a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + –<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new window has 4 radio buttons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our example, we can use both Shift cells up<\/strong> and Entire row<\/strong>. After you click OK<\/strong>, the empty cells will disappear, leaving only cells with values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shift cells up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this example, you have three people with the number of hours they worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can use Shift cells up<\/strong> to move all cells that have values into places of empty cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select all the cells, then choose blanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use Ctrl + –<\/strong> to open the Delete<\/strong> window. Choose Shift cells up<\/strong> and click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entire row<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can also delete the entire row of cells. You have to be careful here because any blank cell inside a row will delete the entire row<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the previous example. What happens if you choose Entire row<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only two rows left. Because in rows 4 and 6 there were no blank cells at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a look at another example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are three people again, but this time we have a table with the number of hours worked on workdays. On holidays nobody worked, so let’s get rid of these rows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select cells from A2<\/strong> to D8<\/strong>, choose blanks, and then delete Entire row<\/strong>. It’s important not to select the first row<\/a> because cell A1<\/strong> is empty and it will result in deleting the header.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this action, you are going to get a table without Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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