How to remove line shapes in Excel?
When working in Excel, you might find that you need to remove specific types of shapes, such as lines, from your worksheet. While Excel's "Go To Special" feature allows you to select and delete all objects at once - including shapes, pictures, charts, and more - it doesn't offer a way to remove only line shapes. In this guide, we'll show you two methods: one to delete all objects using the built-in "Go To Special" function, and another to selectively remove only line shapes using Kutools for Excel.
Delete all objects with Go To Special function
Delete only line shapes with Kutools for Excel
Delete all objects with Go To Special function
1. Open the worksheet from which you want to remove line shapes, and click Home > Find & Select > Go To Special. See screenshot:
2. Then in the Go To Special dialog, check Objects option. Click OK to close the dialog.
3. Then all objects are selected in active worksheet, press Delete key to delete them.
Tip: With Go To Special, all objects including other auto shapes, charts, pictures and so on will be selected, too.
Delete only line shapes with Kutools for Excel
If you have multiple objects in worksheet, and you want to quickly delete only line shapes, you can try to use the Delete Illustrations & Objects utility of Kutools for Excel.
1. Enable the worksheet you want to delete line shapes from, and click Kutools > Delete > Delete Illustrations & Objects. See screenshot:
2. In the popping dialog, check Lines option in Delete section, and then select an option as you need in Look in section. See screenshot:
3. Click Ok, then all line shapes are deleted.
Tip: with Kutools for Excel’s Delete Illustrations & Objects, you only can delete line shapes, the arrow shapes, curve shapes and so on cannot be deleted.
With Kutools for Excel’s Delete Illustration & Objects utility, you can only delete charts, pictures at active worksheet, selected sheets or whole workbook, and also you can delete charts and lines and textboxes together. Click here to know more about this utility.
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