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Reduce a sparsely populated range in Excel

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Mar 15, 2026798 views
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Is there a way of using Excel's built in functions to remove all blank cells in a range? A quick a dirty way would be to sort the range, so that the empty cells ends up last, but if I don't want to change the order of the element that is not a good way of doing it. I know I can do this in VBA, and …

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Highlight your range and go to Edit > Go to > Special, and select Blanks then Ok. Now go to Edit > Delete. Edit: No edit menu in Excel 2007? I must be showing my age.

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