How to delete rows in excel that go on forever

You can watch a video tutorial here.

So you have a huge list of multiple values that seem to go on forever and you would like to delete all of the rows, or all rows starting at a specified row.

There are two options to delete rows:

  • Delete the whole sheet
  • Delete all rows starting at a specified row.

Option 1 – Delete the whole sheet:

Step 1 – Select the whole sheet

  • Select the whole sheet by clicking on the small arrow in the top left corner.

Step 2 – Delete the rows

  • Delete the rows by either pressing CTRL – 
  • Or right-clicking and selecting Delete in the pop-up menu.

Option 2 – Delete all rows starting at a specified row:

Step 1 – Select rows

  • Click on the row in the range you would like to delete.
  • Select all non-blank rows by pressing and holding Shift Ctrl ↓ and keep pressing ↓ until you have the full range you would like to delete.

Step 2 – Delete the rows

  • Delete the rows by either pressing CTRL – 
  • Or right-clicking and selecting Delete in the pop-up menu.

These are easy ways to delete rows quickly.