Remove blank rows quickly in Excel

Have you ever edited an Excel table and wondered about the many empty rows that make the layout look untidy? Often, it can be very tedious to manually remove each empty row. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can quickly and effectively remove empty rows in Excel without investing a lot of time and effort.

Key Takeaways

You will learn how to select all empty cells in a table with just a few clicks and delete them effortlessly. This will not only tidy up your table faster but also make it look more professional.

Step-by-Step Guide

To quickly remove empty rows in your Excel table, follow this simple step-by-step guide:

First, you need to select the entire table. This is very easy to do. You can either drag the entire table with the mouse or use the Ctrl + A key combination. This combination selects everything contained in your table.

Have you selected the entire table? Great! Now press the Ctrl + G combination to open the "Go To" window. Here you can search for content, and we want to select the empty cells.

In the "Go To" window, click on "Contents...". A new window will open where you can choose which content you want to search for. Check the box next to "Empty cells" and confirm with "OK". This way, you have selected all empty cells in the range.

Now you have selected all empty cells in your table.

To delete them, press the Ctrl + - (minus sign) combination. This will open a menu where you can choose what to do with the empty cells. In this case, the empty rows will be removed.

Done! You have now quickly and easily removed all empty rows in your Excel table. You will see that your table now looks much more organized and appealing.

Summary

In this guide, you have learned how to efficiently remove empty rows in Excel. The steps were simple and saved you a lot of time, allowing you to focus on the important data.