delete empty cells and rows

maartenroels

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Hi,

I'm working on an excel sheet that contain empty cells every two rows and every two columns. I want to get rid of them, but doing that manually would cost me the rest of the night as the sheet I work on are very large.

Who can tell me what simple function I may use to delete these empty cells (or rather empty rows and columns)?

Thanks in advance. I know my question is rather primitive but one needs to start somewhere ...

Kind regards,

Maarten
 

Excel Facts

Which Excel functions can ignore hidden rows?
The SUBTOTAL and AGGREGATE functions ignore hidden rows. AGGREGATE can also exclude error cells and more.
Try this

Highlight your entire range
Click Edit - Goto - Special
Select Blanks
Click OK
Right Click any highlighted cell - delete - Shift Left

Repeat but choose Shift UP


Does that help?
 
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Try this

Highlight your entire range
Click Edit - Goto - Special
Select Blanks
Click OK
Right Click any highlighted cell - delete - Shift Left

Repeat but choose Shift UP


Does that help?

That's indeed the only basic way to deal with the problem in a more or less efficient way. Thanks heaps!

Maarten
 
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