How to apply a button to clear specific cells in Excel?
Normally, you can hold the Ctrl key to select multiple specific cells, and then clear the cell contents as you need. If you are always need to clear these specific cells time to time, you can create a clear button to clear them with just one click. In this article, I will talk about how to create a clear all button to clear some specific cell contents.
Apply a button to clear specific cell contents with VBA code
First, you should create a shape button, and then apply a code, at last, tie the code to the shape button. Please do as follows:
1. Click Insert > Shapes > Rectangles to select the Rectangle shape, and then drag the mouse to draw a rectangle button in anywhere of the sheet as you need, see screenshot:
2. Then input the text and format the shape button as you need, see screenshot:
3. And then you should insert the VBA code, please hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
VBA code: Clear cell contents from specific cells:
Sub Clearcells()
'Updateby Extendoffice
Range("A2", "A5").Clear
Range("C10", "D18").Clear
Range("B8", "B12").Clear
End Sub
Note: In the above code: A2,A5 indicate it will clear the cells in the range A2:A5, not just the two cells individually, you can add multiple ranges, such as Range("B8", "B12").Clear script within the code to clear.
4. Then save and close the code window, and then link the code to the shape button, right click the button, and select Assign Macro, in the Assign Macro dialog box, choose the Clearcells code name from the Macro name list box, and click OK button to exit this dialog. See screenshot:
5. And now, when you click the Clear All button, the specific cells you defined are cleared at once, see screenshot:
The Best Office Productivity Tools
Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%
Reuse: Quickly insert complex formulas, charts and anything that you have used before; Encrypt Cells with password; Create Mailing List and send emails...
Super Formula Bar (easily edit multiple lines of text and formula); Reading Layout (easily read and edit large numbers of cells); Paste to Filtered Range...
Select Duplicate or Unique Rows; Select Blank Rows (all cells are empty); Super Find and Fuzzy Find in Many Workbooks; Random Select...
Exact Copy Multiple Cells without changing formula reference; Auto Create References to Multiple Sheets; Insert Bullets, Check Boxes and more...
Extract Text, Add Text, Remove by Position, Remove Space; Create and Print Paging Subtotals; Convert Between Cells Content and Comments...
Super Filter (save and apply filter schemes to other sheets); Advanced Sort by month/week/day, frequency and more; Special Filter by bold, italic...
Combine Workbooks and WorkSheets; Merge Tables based on key columns; Split Data into Multiple Sheets; Batch Convert xls, xlsx and PDF...
More than 300 powerful features. Supports Office/Excel
2007-2019 and 365. Supports all languages. Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization. Full features
30-day free trial. 60-day money back guarantee.
So it clears the data just fine and keeps the formatting, but then I lose all my formulas in the cells. Is there anyway to fix this so it just clears the number?
SUPER HELPFUL! THANK YOU.
But I have another question, maybe you can help me, in order to create the Clear cell macro button, and I already did it, and it just work perfectly. But I need to protect the sheet to make sure nobody delete important formulas, but it turns that this action make the clearcell macro button unclickble.......
What can I do in this case? Help please.....
SUPER HELPFUL! THANK YOU. But I have another question, maybe you can help me, in order to create the Clear cell macro button, and I already did it, and it just work perfectly. But I need to protect the sheet to make sure nobody delete important formulas, but it turns that this action make the clearcell macro button unclickble....... What can I do in this case? Help please.....
i am trying to clear certain cells across several tabs. How can i accomplish this? I have built a checklist that is about 100 questions long on several tabs, and it is hard to go back and delete the feedback from every cell.
Hi! Works great for me with this code as you mentioned:
Sub Clearcells()
Range("A2", "A5").ClearContents
Range("C10", "D18").ClearContents
Range("B8", "B12").ClearContents
End Sub
However, I want to keep the number "0" or the procentage "0" for certain cells. Also, keep the previous selected colour. The reson for this is I use these cells as input cells and want to use the buttom to clear certin input cells.
Is there a way for me to keep the data validation list drops on the cells. For example my list drop includes Yes or No and I would like to reset the cells to blank but keep my data validation in the background
Hi, Radheshyam,
To run above code in a protect worksheet, please apply the below code: (Note: change the text "password" to the password which protect your sheet)
Sub ClearcellsAsProtect()
Dim xWS As Worksheet
Dim xPsw As String
Set xWS = ActiveSheet
xPsw = "password"
On Error Resume Next
xWS.Unprotect Password:=xPsw
Range("A2", "A5").Clear
Range("C10", "D18").Clear
Range("B8", "B12").Clear
xWS.Protect Password:=xPsw
End Sub
I have a workbook with 11 tabs, plus one at the beginning marked as "Start Here". I want to create one button in that tab that will clear up to 9 individual cells of it's contents, or enter a "0" in it within each of these tabs. The cells I want to clear do not necessarily reside in the same spot on each page. Is this possible and how is it done? I presume this can be done in VisualBasic, but would it be easier for a neophyte to create it using Macros?
Sub Clearcells() 'Updateby Extendoffice 20161008 Range("b11:d22").ClearContents 'this line refers to the page with the macro button. Range("'Eval Score Entry'!D2:AA2").ClearContents 'this line refers to a different tab and range. End Sub
Hi. What is the best way to create seperate buttons to clear the contents of each row separately? eg data capturer is happy with the inputs of every other row, but then needs to clear rows 3, row 6 and row 7. What's the most efficient way to create buttons to clear in this way, ie row only?
Thx for this code. How to clear cell contents or ideally fill it up with 0 value in a protected sheet with just few editable cells? Thx for help on ot.
Another tip: I added a textbox. To combine the textbox with the shape, I selected the textbox, held down SHIFT, and then selected the shape. With those both selected I right-clicked and selected GROUP, then GROUP, again.
When these are grouped, you can still change the text and other formatting.
To ungroup, just right-click your new button and select GROUP > UNGROUP.
