VBA-Excel: Delete Blank Rows from Excel Work Sheet

Sometimes deleting the blank rows from you Excel sheet is a tedious task to do especially when your sheet contains lots of data, say 10k-15k rows and having some blank rows in between and you need to delete these rows. Just imagine to delete these blank rows manually, but VBA Codes are life saver here.

• Open a new Excel WorkBook and press “Alt+F11” to open the Visual Basic Editor
• Copy Paste the following code

Sub FnDeleteBlankRows()
   Dim mwb As Workbook
   Set mwb = ActiveWorkbook 
   For x = mwb.Sheets("1").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row To 1 Step -1 
      If WorksheetFunction.CountA(mwb.Sheets("1").Rows(x)) = 0 Then
         mwb.Sheets("1").Rows(x).Delete
      End If
   Next 

End Sub

• Run the Macro

Explanation:

Dim mwb As Workbook

Set mwb = ActiveWorkbook

Getting the instance of Active WorkBook and storing it in WorkBook reference.

For x = mwb.Sheets(“1”).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row To 1 Step -1

Backward loop from row number where last cell is typed means last cell which contains some data to row number 1.

If WorksheetFunction.CountA(mainworkBook.Sheets(“MyFirstMacro”).Rows(x)) = 0 Then

mainworkBook.Sheets(“MyFirstMacro”).Rows(x).Delete

End If

Check whether Row is blank and if yes delete it.