Remove blank rows & columns

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24 lessons / 2 hours

Overview

Hi there, Welcome to this Microsoft Excel BootCamp. Together we’re going to learn how helpful Excel is in nearly every part of our professional lives.

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Excel. We will stick closely to the powerful built in features of Excel and will not get bogged down in confusing code & complicated formulae.

This training course is project based. We start with a simple company branded invoice and explain how to calculate totals & tax. Using a complex and messy spreadsheet we will clean it up using Excels automatic features. With our new tidy data you’ll learn how easy pivot tables can turn long and hard to understand information into simple tables & beautiful graphs. Before you’re finished you’ll be making helpful drop down menus to help you fill out & sort your financial data. . You will learn how to turn uninspiring profit & loss statements into a good looking, easy to use documents. 


Class projects:

  • Create a quote & invoicing form.

  • Cleaning & formatting messy imported data.

  • Inventory spreadsheet.

  • Pivot tables

  • Regional Sales Report

  • Profit & loss spreadsheet.

  • GST & Tax calculations

  • Graphs for use in Word, PowerPoint, InDesign & Illustrator

  • Creating spreadsheets that work within Word documents.

Who should attend?

  • This course is designed for people who have little or no previous experience in Microsoft Excel. You will start right at the beginning and cover all the basics.

  • Only basic computing skills are necessary - if you can send emails and surf the internet then you’ve found the right training.

  • By the end of the course, you will be producing real world results with Excel.

What do you need?

  • No previous Microsoft Excel experience necessary.

  • You'll need Excel 2016 installed on your laptop. The standard installation of Excel 2016 or the Microsoft Office 365 version is fine.

Course duration 2 hours

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In this video, we want to go through and remove any empty cells, or in this case, any completely empty row.

 

There's two really quick and easy ways. We need to select the whole data sets. So I've clicked at the top left of my set. Come down to the bottom here, I'm scrolling down, holding 'Shift' on my keyboard. And selected this last column here, the whole thing's selected.

 

A real quick and easy way would be just to re-order these. 'Sort' them, let's say we sort them by first name. Up here, where it says 'Sort & Filter' I'm going to say I want to go from 'A' to 'Z'. And it's listed everybody's name from alphabetically A, all the way through, and you notice that those three missing blank cells which were at the bottom here, and hey presto, really just gone, because they are all lined up at the bottom here.

 

Let's say you don't want to re-order it. Another really easy way is to have the whole thing selected. I got it all selected. And there's an option over here. Make sure you're on your 'Home' tab. Over here, where it

says 'Find & Select', go down to 'Go to Special'. There's one in here that says 'Blanks'. Click 'OK'. It's got them selected, see we've got all selected there. And then an option up here, where it says 'Delete'. I'm going to use this little drop down, I'm going to use 'Delete Cells'.

 

It's going to ask me what I'd like to do once it gets deleted. I want to shift the cells up, great. And just moves them all up. And we kind of end up at a very similar place. Blanks are gone, but we haven't re-ordered our list. Either way works.

 

Before we go on to our next video, of tidying up these lists I just want to kind of do one quick little thing.

Let's say that the columns here are in a bit of a bad order, so I want to move 'Finishing Time' right next to the names because, let's say that's the most important for us in terms of this runner's time for Half Marathon.

 

So I could select 'B', right click 'Insert column', then cut and paste it across. There's a quick and easier way, I can click on 'F', selects the whole column here, and I can hold 'Shift' down on my keyboard. And what happens is, if I grab any of these edges down here, black edges here, you can see, it gets a little crosshair. I click and drag it. You can see, you get this little I-beam and it can go anywhere. I'm going to put it just next to the names.

 

That's a quick and super easy way to re-order your columns as well. Hope that was helpful. Let's go into the next video.

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