How do I get rid of thousands of blank rows in Excel?
- Click Find & Select.
- Click to Go to Special.
- Choose Blanks.
- Click OK and then all the blank rows/cells will be highlighted.
- Choose the Delete under Cells section on the Home Tab.
- Click Delete Sheet Rows.
- Select the range where you want to remove blanks. ...
- Press F5 and click Special… . ...
- In the Go To Special dialog box, select Blanks and click OK. ...
- Right-click any of the selected blanks, and choose Delete… from the context menu:
If you want to delete multiple rows or columns at the same time, you can use the Ctrl+Shift+- shortcut. Simply select the rows or columns you want to delete, and then press the Ctrl+Shift+- keys on your keyboard. All of the selected rows and columns will be deleted.
- Select the whole worksheet by pressing Alt + A keys, next press Ctrl + G keys to enable the Go To dialog, and then click Special.
- In the Go To Special dialog, check Blanks option. ...
- Click OK, now all blank cells in the blank rows have been selected.
Right click on any selected row and click Delete Rows (2 - 1000) or whatever the numbers for empty rows are in your sheet.
Hold down Shift , then press End and then → . Then (while still holding Shift ) press End again and then ↓ . This should select everything in a very small number of key strokes. However if there are gaps in your data you may have to press End then ↓ until you have everything.
Select one or more rows and columns
Or click on any cell in the column and then press Ctrl + Space. Select the row number to select the entire row. Or click on any cell in the row and then press Shift + Space. To select non-adjacent rows or columns, hold Ctrl and select the row or column numbers.
It sounds like you have a space or something down at the bottom of your spreadsheet. Try to select the last few thousand rows and clear contents. You can also do a Ctrl+Down to find the bottom of a range or start from the bottom and do a Ctrl+Up and see where it stops.
You can use "Number Filters" or "Text Filters" to use logic to filter those columns with more than 10,000 unique values.
- Select the cell or cell range where you want to delete.
- Click the Delete list arrow.
- Select Delete Cells. The Delete dialog box appears.
- Select how you want to move cells to fill in the deleted area: Shift cells right: Shift existing cells to the right. ...
- Click OK.
How do I remove numeric values in Excel?
Select a blank cell that you will return the text string without numbers, enter the formula =RemoveNumbers(A2) (A2 is the cell you will remove numbers from), and then drag the Fill Handle down to the range as you need.