Deleting Empty Rows in Excel by Shortcut (3 Steps)

In this tutorial, we will show a three steps process of removing all empty (adjacent or non-adjacent) rows in Excel – by using a shortcut.

Deleting rows in Excel

While deleting a row (empty or non-empty) is quite simple and explained in our tutorial [Delete a row in Excel]

There, you can also see how to remove multiple adjacent rows with a shortcut.

In this tutorial, we will show a three steps process of removing all empty (adjacent or non-adjacent) rows in Excel – by using a shortcut.

Steps for removing empty rows (adjacent or non-adjacent)

Step 1:

In the Active sheet where you want to remove empty rows, press “F5”. It should open the following dialog:

Exce-remove-rows-1

Click on the “Special” button.

Step 2:

On the next dialog, select “Blanks” options and click on the “Ok” button.

Excel-remove-blanks

It should select all empty rows in the sheet as shown below.

remove-rows-selected

Step 4:

Now perform this shortcut for removing all empty rows:

Alt + H + D + R

That’s it.

It will remove all empty rows from the sheet as shown below.

Excel-rows-deleted

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