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How to remove empty rows and columns from tables in Word?

How can you remove the all empty rows and columns from tables in Word? This tutorial will show you several ways to remove empty rows and columns from tables in Word document.

Remove all empty rows and columns from tables with one click

Manually remove all empty rows and columns from tables

Microsoft Office Word does not provide a convenient way to remove empty rows and columns, and you need to remove them by manually select each empty row and column and then delete them one by one.

Step 1: Select the empty row or empty column you want to delete. See screenshot:

Step 3: Under Table Tools, click the Layout Tab;

Step 4: In the Rows & Columns group, click Delete Rows or Delete Columns.

Remove all empty rows and columns from tables by using VBA code

The Macro Function of Word provides a much more convenient way to remove all empty rows and columns from tables in document. You can remove all empty rows and columns as follows.

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Step 1: Press “Alt-F11” to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window;

Step 2: Click Module on the Insert tab, copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window;

Step 3: Then click Runbutton to apply the VBA.

The VBA code to remove all empty rows and columns from tables:

Sub DeleteEmptyTablerowsandcolumns()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Tbl As Table, cel As Cell, i As Long, n As Long, fEmpty As Boolean
With ActiveDocument
For Each Tbl In .Tables
n = Tbl.Columns.Count
For i = n To 1 Step -1
fEmpty = True
For Each cel In Tbl.Columns(i).Cells
If Len(cel.Range.Text) > 2 Then
fEmpty = False
Exit For
End If
Next cel
If fEmpty = True Then Tbl.Columns(i).Delete
Next i
Next Tbl
End With
With ActiveDocument
For Each Tbl In .Tables
n = Tbl.Rows.Count
For i = n To 1 Step -1
fEmpty = True
For Each cel In Tbl.Rows(i).Cells
If Len(cel.Range.Text) > 2 Then
fEmpty = False
Exit For
End If
Next cel
If fEmpty = True Then Tbl.Rows(i).Delete
Next i
Next Tbl
End With
Set cel = Nothing: Set Tbl = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Remove all empty rows and columns from tables with one click

Insydeflash windows bios flash utility download. Kutools for Word provides you the most convenient way to remove all empty rows and columns from tables in document. You just need to click once, and Kutools for Word' sDelete Rows/Columns utility will remove all empty rows and columns from all or selecetd tables for you quickly.

After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Word Now!)

1. Click Kutools Plus > Delete Rows/Columns on the Table pane.

2. Then a dialog pops out, choose the scope that you want to remove tables from in the Look in section, then check Row option and Blank row option, or check Column option and Blank row option as you need. If you want to delete all blank rows and columns, you need to apply this operation twice.

Now a dialog pops out to remind you how many tables have been dealed with, click OK to close, and the blank rows and columns have been removed from tables.

Demo : Remove blank rows and columns from tables in word

Tip.If you want to remove blank rows from Excel sheet, the Delete Blank Rows utility of Kutools for Excel can help you.

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  You just saved me a zillion hours of frustration, THANK YOU!
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  u know you can just resize the table right? just filter and sort your data to top check how many rows have data, click table tools and the click resize and adjust the last number to whatever you need OR go to the bottom of the table the very last cell and use the tine blue triangle to drag and resize,

  • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
    Except I have multiple page document with a table with varying information in each. Furthermore, it is a merge document so different each week. I need an automated method :)
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  Hi, the macro is working, BUT:
  After deleting all rows, all the columns of the tables with empty rows open up very wide.
  How can i fix the code so that this does not happens?
  I am using Office 2016.
  Thank you!
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  Hi All,
  I am looking for function in word wherein, if I remove specific word then it should remove that row as well.
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  Thanks for the code, really useful.
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  Is there a macro that will delete a row if only one of the cells in that row is empty or contains a zero?
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  thanks for the macro, it was really helpful.
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  Thanks for the macro. It worked like a charm!
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  Hello developers - I have this macro which sits in a button and when clicked (the macro) removes the table directly above the button. Can this be fixed so that the macro only works once? Ie. if there are 2 tables in the document only 1 is deleted - then the macro ceases to work.. can you advise?
  Sub tableDelete()
  '
  ' tableDelete Macro
  'Dim nTables As Integer
  nTables = ActiveDocument.Tables.Count
  ActiveDocument.Tables(nTables).Delete
  '
  End Sub

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    [quote name='Andy Harris']Hello developers - I have this macro which sits in a button and when clicked (the macro) removes the table directly above the button. Can this be fixed so that the macro only works once? Ie. if there are 2 tables in the document only 1 is deleted - then the macro ceases to work.. can you advise?
    Sub tableDelete()
    Dim nTables As Integer
    nTables = ActiveDocument.Tables.Count
    ActiveDocument.Tables(nTables).Delete
    End Sub[/quote]
    Please try to use this VBA to delete all tables from current document in Word.
    [i]Sub tableDelete()
    Dim aTable As Table
    For Each aTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
    aTable.Delete
    Next
    End Sub[/i]