I cannot delete a row in Excel

Erkan Mali

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At my workplace, I am working an excel file. I need to delete row completely. When I choose remove this row (not delete contents), it only deletes the content and the said row stays there. I want to remove the whole row altogether so that the rows below could move up but they don’t.

Also when I delete the contents of any row, I cannot perform Ctrl+Z. In other words the excel works in a weird way. Plus I tried this in other users and the issue persists.
 

Erkan Mali

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@Alabalcho I tried in a new excel file and the problem does NOT persist. Only that file has an issue. There are no protections or macros in that excel. Also I was able to delete the rows whenever I wanted. The issue only started to happen that. I had to copy paste the worksheet on to a new file. It seems there is no solution.
 
Jan 31, 2019
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Maybe you locked the sheet?
The reason why you would still be able to make changes on the cells is because they might be unprotected, but the delete row/column protection options are on so the delete row option is greyed out.
 

palakbisht

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At my workplace, I am working an excel file. I need to delete row completely. When I choose remove this row (not delete contents), it only deletes the content and the said row stays there. I want to remove the whole row altogether so that the rows below could move up but they don’t.

Also when I delete the contents of any row, I cannot perform Ctrl+Z. In other words the excel works in a weird way. Plus I tried this in other users and the issue persists.
hi,
  • Select a cell in the row that you wish todelete.
  • Right-click and select "Delete" from the popup menu.
  • When theDelete window appears
  • select the "Entire row" option and click on the OK button.