Comments on: Excel: Remove blank cells

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:21:16 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH for this!!!!!!!!!! I've been trying to write if statements for the last 2 days to try to filter out unneeded data. I just converted the garbage to blank cells then used your equation..... ITS Beautiful!!!!!!!

Thanks so much!!!

By: June

June — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:54:02 +0000

Oscar,

Thank you sooo much~!The formula removes cells that seem to be blank but contains a space character solve all my problems~!

By: Create a list with no blank cells | Online Excel Courses

Create a list with no blank cells | Online Excel Courses — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:11:08 +0000

[...] how it can be done using formulas. One of them that explained how it can done can be found a http://www.get-digital-help.com/2007/09/16/excel-remove-blank-cells/ modified the formula to do it for columns. Thennbsp;I setup the formulanbsp;such thatnbsp;he [...]

By: Oscar

Oscar — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:26:10 +0000

Marcol,

Yes you are right. ISERROR($B$2:$B$200) removes formulas that return an error.

By: Marcol

Marcol — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:43:40 +0000

Great to see a non-volatile solution to this problem. If the apparently empty cell is "" returned by a formula then the "blanks" will not be removed,in fact as they are all read as different "blanks" and the list can/will remain unchanged. This mod seems to handle this situation. =INDEX($B$2:$B$200, SMALL(IF(($B$2:$B$200="")+ISERROR($B$2:$B$200), "", ROW($B$2:$B$200)-MIN(ROW($B$2:$B$200))+1), ROW(1:1))) Wrap in IFERROR("formula","") for 2007 and above, or IF(ISERROR("formula"),"","formula") for 2003 and earlier.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:31:46 +0000

Sorry - I found a work around using your current formulas above, glad I found it! Going to take some doing to set it up but it will be worth it.

Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:31:44 +0000

Basically I'm looking to do the same thing the filter does but what I want to end up with is a single sheet that has 10 of these filterd lists above and next to each other.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:24:42 +0000

Well that doesn't look pretty how about this:

CURRENT TRYING TO DO WOULD BE IDEAL
--A--------B-----------A--------B-----------A--------B
Name 1...Data 1------Name 1...Data 1------Name 1...Data 1
Name 2...______------Name 3...Data 2------Name 4...Data 1
Name 3...Data 2------Name 4...Data 1
Name 4...Data 1------Name 6...Data 3
Name 5...______
Name 6...Data 3

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:07:01 +0000

Wondering if you can help.

Easiest to put an example down:

CURRENT TRYING TO DO WOULD BE IDEAL
A B A B A B
Name 1 Data 1 Name 1 Data 1 Name 1 Data 1
Name 2 Name 3 Data 2 Name 4 Data 1
Name 3 Data 2 Name 4 Data 1
Name 4 Data 1 Name 6 Data 3
Name 5
Name 6 Data 3

Where the name stays matched up with the data item in the same row. I would think using hlookup or vlookup in some fashion might help but I can't wrap my brain around it. Any thoughts?

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:03:27 +0000

JOshua, I am not sure what is wrong.

=INDEX($B$3:$B$10, SMALL(IF(ISBLANK($B$3:$B$10), "", ROW($B$3:$B$10)-MIN(ROW($B$3:$B$10))+1), ROW(A1)))

$B$3:$B$10 is the cell range. Adjust range to your sheet. A1 (bolded) is a relative cell reference. This cell reference changes when you copy the formula. Yes, you can also copy the formula by click and hold and drag the cell down to the last cell you need.