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How to convert zero to blank in selected range in Excel?

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Have you ever tried to convert the zero cells to blank cells in Excel? Now I tell you some quick ways to batch convert the zero cell to blank cells in Excel.

Convert zero to blank by Find and Replace function
Convert zero to blank by VBA
Convert zero to blank with Kutools for Excel


Convert zero to blank by Find and Replace function

Find and Replace function is very useful in Excel, you can use it to find all zero cells first, and then replace it with blank.

1. Press Ctrl + F to display Find and Replace dialog.

2. In the Find and Replace dialog, click Replace tab, and type 0 into Find what text box, a space into Replace with dialog, then click Options to expand the dialog and check Match entire cell contents. See screenshots:

A screenshot of the Find and Replace dialog box in Excel for converting zero values to blank

3. Then click Replace All, and a dialog pops out tell you how many cells have been replaced. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Replace All confirmation dialog showing how many cells were replaced in Excel

4. Click OK. And you can see the zero cells have been replaced with blank.

5. Click the Close button to exit the Find and Replace dialog.


Convert zero to blank by VBA

If you are familiar to VBA, you can use below VBA code to convert zero to blank cell.

1. Press Alt + F11 to open a Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.

2. Click Insert > Module to open a Module window, then copy the following VBA to the window.

VBA: Convert zero cells to blank.

Sub ChangeZero()
'Updateby20140708
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    If Rng.Value = 0 Then
        Rng.Value = ""
    End If
Next
End Sub

3. Click Run button or F5 key on the keyboard to run this code, and a KutoolsforExcel dialog pops out for selecting a range to replace the zero cells. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the KutoolsforExcel dialog box for selecting a range to replace zero values using VBA

4. Click OK, and all zero cells in the selection are converted to blank cells.


Convert zero to blank with Kutools for Excel

The Select Specific Cells utility of Kutools for Excel can help you to select all cells with zero in a selected range. After selecting all cells with zero, you can delete them with pressing the Delete key. Please do as follows.

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1. Please select the range with zero cells you want to convert to blank. And then click Kutools > Select > Select Specific Cells. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Select Specific Cells option on the Kutools tab on the Ribbon

2. In the Select Specific Cells dialog box, select Cell in the Selection type section, and then select Equals from the drop-down list in the Specific type section, enter 0 into the following box. Finally click the OK button. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Select Specific Cells dialog box

3. Then all cells with zero are selected immediately, please press the Delete key on the keyboard to clear all selected cells. You can see all zero are converted to blank as below screenshot shown.

A screenshot showing the result after converting zero values to blank in Excel using Kutools

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.


Demo: Convert zero to blank with Kutools for Excel

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