A quick way to delete or remove blank rows in Excel
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Loading... - Ryan Griffin
- 03 Nov 2022
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In most spreadsheets, blank rows are undesirable. Microsoft Excel uses blanks to determine data ranges, and a blank row in the wrong place will inhibit many built-in features. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to remove blank rows from a data range in Excel, but this easy technique has the potential to destroy data, so you must be careful.
In this Excel tutorial, I’ll show you a quick and easy way to delete blank rows in the middle of a data set without deleting adjacent data accidentally. Throughout this Excel article, I use the term row to describe adjacent blank cells within the data set.
I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use earlier versions. Excel for the web supports this easy technique. You can download the Microsoft Excel demo file for this tutorial.
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