Excel VBA - Delete empty rows - vba

Question

I would like to delete the empty rows my ERP Quotation generates. I'm trying to go through the document (A1:Z50) and for each row where there is no data in the cells (A1-B1...Z1 = empty, A5-B5...Z5 = empty) I want to delete them.
I found this, but can't seem to configure it for me.
On Error Resume Next
Worksheet.Columns("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
On Error GoTo 0

Answer 1

How about
sub foo()
dim r As Range, rows As Long, i As Long
Set r = ActiveSheet.Range("A1:Z50")
rows = r.rows.Count
For i = rows To 1 Step (-1)
If WorksheetFunction.CountA(r.rows(i)) = 0 Then r.rows(i).Delete
Next
End Sub

Answer 2

Try this
Option Explicit
Sub Sample()
Dim i As Long
Dim DelRange As Range
On Error GoTo Whoa
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For i = 1 To 50
If Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(Range("A" & i & ":" & "Z" & i)) = 0 Then
If DelRange Is Nothing Then
Set DelRange = Range("A" & i & ":" & "Z" & i)
Else
Set DelRange = Union(DelRange, Range("A" & i & ":" & "Z" & i))
End If
End If
Next i
If Not DelRange Is Nothing Then DelRange.Delete shift:=xlUp
LetsContinue:
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Exit Sub
Whoa:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume LetsContinue
End Sub
IF you want to delete the entire row then use this code
Option Explicit
Sub Sample()
Dim i As Long
Dim DelRange As Range
On Error GoTo Whoa
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For i = 1 To 50
If Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(Range("A" & i & ":" & "Z" & i)) = 0 Then
If DelRange Is Nothing Then
Set DelRange = Rows(i)
Else
Set DelRange = Union(DelRange, Rows(i))
End If
End If
Next i
If Not DelRange Is Nothing Then DelRange.Delete shift:=xlUp
LetsContinue:
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Exit Sub
Whoa:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume LetsContinue
End Sub

Answer 3

I know I am late to the party, but here is some code I wrote/use to do the job.
Sub DeleteERows()
Sheets("Sheet1").Select
Range("a2:A15000").Select
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
End Sub

Answer 4

for those who are intersted to remove "empty" and "blank" rows ( Ctrl + Shift + End going deep down of your worksheet ) .. here is my code.
It will find the last "real"row in each sheet and delete the remaining blank rows.
Function XLBlank()
For Each sh In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
sh.Activate
Cells(1, 1).Select
lRow = Cells.Find(What:="*", _
After:=Range("A1"), _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _
MatchCase:=False).Row
Range("A" & lRow + 1, Range("A1").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Address).Select
On Error Resume Next
Selection.EntireRow.SpecialCells(xlBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
Cells(1, 1).Select
Next
ActiveWorkbook.Save
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Activate
End Function
Open VBA ( ALT + F11 ), Insert -> Module,
Copy past my code and launch it with F5.
Et voila :D

Answer 5

I have another one for the case when you want to delete only rows which are complete empty, but not single empty cells. It also works outside of Excel e.g. on accessing Excel by Access-VBA or VB6.
Public Sub DeleteEmptyRows(Sheet As Excel.Worksheet)
Dim Row As Range
Dim Index As Long
Dim Count As Long
If Sheet Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
' We are iterating across a collection where we delete elements on the way.
' So its safe to iterate from the end to the beginning to avoid index confusion.
For Index = Sheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count To 1 Step -1
Set Row = Sheet.UsedRange.Rows(Index)
' This construct is necessary because SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks)
' always throws runtime errors if it doesn't find any empty cell.
Count = 0
On Error Resume Next
Count = Row.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Count
On Error GoTo 0
If Count = Row.Cells.Count Then Row.Delete xlUp
Next
End Sub

Answer 6

To make Alex K's answer slightly more dynamic you could use the code below:
Sub DeleteBlankRows()
Dim wks As Worksheet
Dim lngLastRow As Long, lngLastCol As Long, lngIdx As Long, _
lngColCounter As Long
Dim blnAllBlank As Boolean
Dim UserInputSheet As String
UserInputSheet = Application.InputBox("Enter the name of the sheet which you wish to remove empty rows from")
Set wks = Worksheets(UserInputSheet)
With wks
'Now that our sheet is defined, we'll find the last row and last column
lngLastRow = .Cells.Find(What:="*", LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Row
lngLastCol = .Cells.Find(What:="*", LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column
'Since we need to delete rows, we start from the bottom and move up
For lngIdx = lngLastRow To 1 Step -1
'Start by setting a flag to immediately stop checking
'if a cell is NOT blank and initializing the column counter
blnAllBlank = True
lngColCounter = 2
'Check cells from left to right while the flag is True
'and the we are within the farthest-right column
While blnAllBlank And lngColCounter <= lngLastCol
'If the cell is NOT blank, trip the flag and exit the loop
If .Cells(lngIdx, lngColCounter) <> "" Then
blnAllBlank = False
Else
lngColCounter = lngColCounter + 1
End If
Wend
'Delete the row if the blnBlank variable is True
If blnAllBlank Then
.rows(lngIdx).delete
End If
Next lngIdx
End With
MsgBox "Blank rows have been deleted."
End Sub
This was sourced from this website and then slightly adapted to allow the user to choose which worksheet they want to empty rows removed from.

Answer 7

In order to have the On Error Resume function work you must declare the workbook and worksheet values as such
On Error Resume Next
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet Name").Columns("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
On Error GoTo 0
I had the same issue and this eliminated all the empty rows without the need to implement a For loop.

Answer 8

This worked great for me (you can adjust lastrow and lastcol as needed):
Sub delete_rows_blank2()
t = 1
lastrow = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count
lastcol = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count
Do Until t = lastrow
For j = 1 To lastcol
'This only checks the first column because the "Else" statement below will skip to the next row if the first column has content.
If Cells(t, j) = "" Then
j = j + 1
If j = lastcol Then
Rows(t).Delete
t = t + 1
End If
Else
'Note that doing this row skip, may prevent user from checking other columns for blanks.
t = t + 1
End If
Next
Loop
End Sub

Answer 9

Here is the quickest way to Delete all blank Rows ( based on one Columns )
Dim lstRow as integet, ws as worksheet
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("NameOfSheet")
With ws
lstRow = .Cells(Rows.Count, "B").End(xlUp).Row ' Or Rows.Count "B", "C" or "A" depends
.Range("A1:E" & lstRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
End with