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Remove (Delete) Blank Rows in Excel

By Pradeep SPradeep S

Delete Blank Rows in Excel

Remove Blank Rows in Excel (Table of Contents)

  • Remove Blank Rows in Excel
  • How to Remove Blank Rows in Excel?

Remove Blank Rows in Excel

To Delete or remove blank rows in excel, first, we need to select the table from where we need to delete blank rows and then filter out all the blank rows from that table. Now there are 2 ways to delete blank rows. The first is to select the Delete rows option from the Home menu ribbon from the Delete drop-down, and the second is to select all the blank rows and press the short cut key Ctrl + – (Minus).

How to Remove Blank Rows in Excel?

Let’s lookout for how to remove blank rows in Excel.

You can download this Delete Blank Rows in Excel Template here – Delete Blank Rows in Excel Template

There are 5 ways to remove blank rows in Excel.

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  1. “Go to Special” method.
  2. Use Excel Filter Functionality.
  3. Use the sort by column method.
  4. Use Excel Find Functionality or removing Blank Rows with Find & Select method.
  5. Use of macros to delete blank rows in excel.

Example #1 – Go To Special Method

It can be used only when entire, complete rows are blank in an excel sheet.

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The “Go to Special” method helps out to delete an entire row in excel.

This method is used when data appears like a below-mentioned screenshot.

Remove Blank Rows Example 1-1

The above-mentioned table contains an employee name in column A, a product category in column B & sales in column C. I need to delete blank rows that are present in that tale range with the “Go to Special” method in excel.

Select the entire table, Press the function F5 key, “Go to” dialog box appears. Click on ‘Special’.

Click on Special

“Go to special” dialog box appears, click the ‘Blanks’ radio button and press OK.

Click the Blanks radio button

You can see all the blank cells selected immediately, where you’ll see all the blank cells or rows will be highlighted.

Remove Blank Rows Example 1-4

Now on the Home tab, In the cells section, click on Delete and then choose Delete Sheet Rows.

Note: While doing this process, you should not click anywhere on the sheet (otherwise, your selection will be removed)

Delete Sheet Rows

Now, you can observe, the entire unfilled rows will be deleted in the table.

Remove Blank Rows Example 1-6

Example #2 – Use of Excel Filter Functionality Method

It can be used only when entire, complete rows are blank in an excel sheet. This method helps out to delete the entire blank rows in excel.

The below-mentioned table contains an employee name in column A, a product category in column B & sales in column C. I need to delete blank rows which are present in that table range with the “EXCEL FILTER FUNCTIONALITY” method in excel.

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-1

Initially, I have to activate the Excel data filter for the data table in excel, select the entire data range or table range and click on the Filter button in the Data tab in the Excel ribbon.

Click (keyboard shortcut – Ctrl + Shift + L)

Filter

When you click on Filter, each column in the first row will automatically have a small drop-down button or filter icon added at the right corner of the cell i.e.

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-3

You’ll see a drop-down arrow appear next to each title in the header row. Click on employee name, i.e. by applying the filter to the “employee name” column.

Once a filter is applied in the “employee name” column, Excel pinpoints you that table is filtered on a particular column by adding a funnel icon to the region column’s drop-down list button.

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-4

Now, uncheck Select All and check only Blanks at the bottom.

Select Blanks

Once you have applied the filter, only the entire blank rows will be visible,

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-6

Then you can select and delete the entire blank rows in excel. The rows can be deleted by pressing the Delete sheet rows button on the cells of the Home tab of the ribbon.

Delete sheet rows button

The table will look like this:

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-8

Now you can clear the applied filter by following below mention steps:

Go to the Data tab > Sort & Filter group and click Clear.

Click Clear

Now, you can observe, the entire unfilled rows will be deleted in the table.

Remove Blank Rows Example 2-10

Example #3 – Sort by Column Method

It is a simple and very effective way to delete blank rows in excel.

It can be used only when entire, complete rows are blank in an excel sheet. This method helps out to delete the entire row.

The below-mentioned table contains an employee name in column A, a product category in column B & sales in column C. I need to delete blank rows which are present in that table range with the “SORT BY COLUMN METHOD” method in excel.

Prior to this procedure, the first thing you have to do is, insert a column and number it consecutively with serial numbers if you want the order of the rows in the same manner.

Usually, when we sort Column A to get rid of the blank lines, then it will be difficult to get the rows back in the order they were before sorting; therefore, we have to add serial numbers.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-1

Now you select the data range or table, including headers, and click on the Data ribbon in Excel. Then click on the Sort button in sort & filter on the Data tab.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-2

Sort option box appears; here, you can sort by employee name and then click OK.

Note: You have to sort the column that has the blank values in it.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-3

After sorting, data appears as below mentioned.

After sorting data

As you can see, in the above-sorted data, it’s very easy to delete the blank rows because they are all at the bottom, i.e. serial no 2, 5 & 7; you can delete those entire rows.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-5

After deleting the rows, data will like this.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-6

Once you delete the rows, now you can probably observe why we added the column with the serial numbers in the beginning. Before sorting, the order of employee name was “John, Chris, saw” and now you can see, it is “Bret, Chris, Harry, etc.…”. Now you can sort again by serial numbers to get the original order back.

Remove Blank Rows Example 3-7

Our Final Table will look as below:

Final Table

Things to Remember about Remove Blank Rows in Excel

  • It’s always better to backup data (one set of copies in other sheets) prior to deleting a blank row with the above-mentioned methods in excel.
  • Blank rows in the worksheets or tabular data will affect carrying out built-in Excel table tools or functions such as sort, remove duplicates, subtotals, and many other excel functions and recognize your data range perfectly by others who use it.

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