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Sean Timmons Sean Timmons is offline
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Default Why does the skip blanks (paste special) function not work?

Well, I'd think highlight the entire spreadsheet and sort by a column would
solve your issue...

The fields may not be blank. They may have a " ". Typically, you can find
this out by hitting CTRL then down arrow while at top of the list. If the
cursor goes right past your blank rows, they aren't technically blank.

HTH!

"toomuchwrinkles" wrote:

Sometimes I export data from another progam in to Exel. The export always
inserts blank lines (rows) between the data. There are hundreds of rows of
data and it's very time consuming to manually delete these lines. I try to
copy the data and paste special to a new worksheet using the skip blanks
option, but it doesn't work. Any idea/feedback as to why?