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Sometimes you have a large list that contains empty rows, and you need to remove these rows
in order to clean up the list. You could delete the rows one by one, but that's going to take
a long time, especially if you lot's of blank rows.
In today's ExcelJet tip, we'll show you a cool way to delete blank rows, even hundreds
or thousands of blank rows, in record time. Even better, with this tip, Excel does all
the hard work for you.
Let's take a look.
Here we have a really big list that contains a lot of empty rows. If we hop down to the
bottom of the sheet, then back up to the bottom row, we can see that we have over 36,000 rows,
and several thousand of these rows are empty.
Sure, we could just work our way through the list, deleting those empty rows one by one.
But that will take a long time, and it won't be any fun at all. So let's look at a really
fast way to do it using Excel's GoTo Special command.
To start off, select the entire first column. Then select Edit > Go To..., and click the
Special button. Select "Blanks" and click OK. Excel has now selected all of the blank
cells in our first column.
Now carefully right-mouse click on one of the empty calls, and choose Delete... from
the menu. Then select Entire row, and click the OK button. Now we have a clean list with
no blank lines. If we hop down to the bottom of the list, there are a little more than
33,000 rows, which means we just deleted over 3000 empty rows!
In a future tip, we'll show you how to use this same approach to remove non-blank rows
with missing values.
See you next time.
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