Delete Data in Excel

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MS Excel provides various ways of deleting data in the sheet. Let us see those ways.

Delete with Mouse

Select the data you want to delete. Right Click on the sheet. Select the delete option, to delete the data.

Delete with Delete Key

Select the data you want to delete. Press on the Delete Button from the keyboard, it will delete the data.

Selective Delete for Rows

Select the rows, which you want to delete with Mouse click + Control Key.Then right click to show the various options. Select the Delete option to delete the selected rows.

Select Data in Excel

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MS Excel provides various ways of selecting data in the sheet. Let us see those ways.

Select with Mouse

Drag the mouse over the data you want to select. It will select those cells as shown below.

Select with Special

If you want to select specific region, select any cell in that region. Pressing F5will show the below dialogue box.

Click on Special button to see the below dialogue box. Select current region from the radio buttons. Click on ok to see the current region selected.

As you can see in the below screen, the data is selected for the current region.

Insert Data in Excel

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In MS Excel, there are 1048576*16384 cells. MS Excel cell can have Text, Numeric value or formulas. An MS Excel cell can have maximum of 32000 characters.

Inserting Data

For inserting data in MS Excel, just activate the cell type text or number and press enter or Navigation keys.

Inserting Formula

For inserting formula in MS Excel go to the formula bar, enter the formula and then press enter or navigation key. See the screen-shot below to understand it.

Modifying Cell Content

For modifying the cell content just activate the cell, enter a new value and then press enter or navigation key to see the changes. See the screen-shot below to understand it.

Open Workbook in Excel

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Let us see how to open workbook from excel in the below mentioned steps.

Step 1 − Click the File Menu as shown below. You can see the Open optionin File Menu.

There are two more columns Recent workbooks and Recent places, where you can see the recently opened workbooks and the recent places from where workbooks are opened.

Step 2 − Clicking the Open Option will open the browse dialog as shown below. Browse the directory and find the file you need to open.

Step 3 − Once you select the workbook your workbook will be opened as below −

Close Workbook in Excel

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Close Workbook

Here are the steps to close a workbook.

Step 1 − Click the Close Button as shown below.

You'll see a confirmation message to save the workbook.

Step 2 − Press the Save Button to save the workbook as we did in MS Excel - Save Workbook chapter.

Now your worksheet will get closed.

Delete Worksheet in Excel

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Delete Worksheet

Here is the step to delete a worksheet.

Step − Right Click the Sheet Name and select the Delete option.

Sheet will get deleted if it is empty, otherwise you'll see a confirmation message.

Press the Delete Button.

Now your worksheet will get deleted.

Hiding Worksheet in Excel

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Hiding Worksheet

Here is the step to hide a worksheet.

Step − Right Click the Sheet Name and select the Hide option. Sheet will get hidden.

Unhiding Worksheet

Here are the steps to unhide a worksheet.

Step 1 − Right Click on any Sheet Name and select the Unhide... option.

Step 2 − Select Sheet Name to unhide in Unhide dialog to unhide the sheet.

Press the Ok Button.

Now you will have your hidden sheet back.