How to shorten the fill empty cells process in Excel

In this lesson, we will learn how to fill empty cells in Excel with one step only.

Assuming we have the following table and we want to fill empty cells in it to distinguish them from the filled cells.

a table in excel
a table in excel

With these steps, we can fill in all the blanks at once without going through them one by one.

I assume that the table shows a group of student marks and that the empty cells are days when the student was absent from the exam.

Click on the table and press “Control + A” from the keyboard to select the entire table.

select the entire table
select the entire table

Then from the toolbar, from “Home”, we choose “Find and Select” and from it, we choose “Go to Special”.

"Go to Special"
“Go to Special”

A window appears from which we choose “Blanks”.

"Blanks"
“Blanks”

Then we click “Ok” and notice that Excel has selected the empty cells with a different color.

the empty cells are selected
the empty cells are selected

We will write in this cell, for example: “N/A”.

"N/A"
“N/A”

Press “Control + Enter” and you will notice that all the boxes now contain the word “N/A”.

fill empty cells
the empty cells are filled

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