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Deleting unwanted rows in Excel worksheet

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Mar 15, 2026180309 views
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In an Excel 2010 file, there are about 100 rows containing data, but the whole work sheet displays 1048576 blank rows (making the file about 2.5 mb). I need to delete blank rows after the data. But selecting the row and deleting it is doing nothing. How to delete these unwanted rows? This is my exc…

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There is definitely something wrong with your file. It might be easier to copy the 100 rows you want to keep to a new workbook file rather than try to delete a million rows. A search for duplicates in the whole document found and removed over 1 mill…

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