How to select empty cells in Excel using conditional formatting

In this lesson, we will learn How to select empty cells in Excel using conditional formatting.

Let’s start by assuming we have the following table:

a table in Excel
a table in Excel

In order to remove empty cells, we will follow the following steps:

1- We select the entire table.

select the table
select the table

From the toolbar, from “Home” we choose “Conditional Formatting”, from which we will choose “New Rule”.

"Conditional Formatting"
“Conditional Formatting”

The following interface will appear, from which we will choose the second option “Format Only Cells That Contains”.

"Format Only Cells That Contains"
“Format Only Cells That Contains”

From the bottom, we will choose the cells that contain blanks “Blanks”.

"Blanks"
“Blanks”

From “Format”, we will determine how the format of the empty cells will look, and in this example, we will make the empty cells red.

 "Format"
“Format”

We choose “Ok” and the result will be as follows.

using conditional formatting to select empty cells
using conditional formatting to select empty cells

We notice that when adding any expression to an empty red cell, the red color disappears.

add an expression to an empty cell
add an expression to an empty cell

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