Can I remove blanks from a range without using sort?
 

I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

this is

from one of the newsgroup correspondents

use this code statement

Range("a1:a10").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Ent ireRow.Delete



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Hugh Murfitt wrote in message
...
I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another
source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be
blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information
are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

a macro or
make your selectionf5specialblanks

--
Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Hugh Murfitt" wrote in message
...
I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another
source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be
blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information
are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

I was hoping for a formula that would re-order automatically without losing
data

"R.VENKATARAMAN" wrote:

this is

from one of the newsgroup correspondents

use this code statement

Range("a1:a10").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Ent ireRow.Delete



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Hugh Murfitt wrote in message
...
I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another
source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be
blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information
are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

Hugh

What type of analysing are you doing on the data?

Most Functions will ignore blanks in a range.

=SUM(A1:A10) ignores the blanks.

To delete the blanks if desired..........

Select A1:A10 then F5SpecialBlanksOK

EditDeleteShift Up.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP



On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:43:03 -0800, Hugh Murfitt
wrote:

I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

{=INDEX(A$1:A$10,SMALL(IF(A$1:A$10<0,ROW(A$1:A$10 ),""),ROW(A1:A1)))}
(control-shift-enter) will work if they are really blanks. If the
"blank" values are "" returned from elsewhere, they will remain "". If
0 is returned, they will be removed.
Note that your 1st reference must be to A1. Won't work if you use A2,
for example.

HTH



Hugh Murfitt wrote:
I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.

This is EXACTLY what I wanted. Thanks a million for saving me a huge amount
of time.

"Hugh" wrote:

{=INDEX(A$1:A$10,SMALL(IF(A$1:A$10<0,ROW(A$1:A$10 ),""),ROW(A1:A1)))}
(control-shift-enter) will work if they are really blanks. If the
"blank" values are "" returned from elsewhere, they will remain "". If
0 is returned, they will be removed.
Note that your 1st reference must be to A1. Won't work if you use A2,
for example.

HTH



Hugh Murfitt wrote:
I have a range of cells A1:a10, say, which obtain data from another source.
Some of those cells a3, a6:a8, say, under certain conditions, will be blank.
How do I reorder this range such that the cells containing information are
listed together, removing the blanks? I want to do this using a formula,
rather than filter or sort, as the data, and hence the blank cells, will
change, and I want to perform analysis on the cells containing data.