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How to return the row number of first or last non blank cell in worksheet?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-08-12

Have you ever tried to get or return the row number of the first or last non blank cell in a worksheet as following screenshot shown? This tutorial, I will talk about some formulas for you to solve this job in Excel.

Return or get the row number of first or last non blank cell with formulas

a screenshot of getting the row number of the first and last non-blank cell

Return or get the row number of first or last non blank cell with formulas

The following formulas can help you to quickly calculate the row number of the first and last non blank cell, please do as this:

Return the row number of the first non blank cell:

Please enter this this formula: =ROW(INDEX(A2:A20,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX((A2:A20<>0),0),0))) into a blank cell where you want to get the row number, and then press Enter key, and the first non blank cell’ row number has been displayed as following screenshot shown:

a screenshot of using formula to return the row number of the first non blank cell

Return the row number of the last non blank cell:

To get the row number of the last non blank cell, please apply this formula:

Enter the formula: =SUMPRODUCT(MAX((A2:A20<>"")*ROW(A2:A20))) into a blank cell to locate the calculated result, and then press Enter key to return the correct result, see screenshot:

a screenshot of using formula to return the row number of the last non blank cell

Note: In the above formulas, A2:A20 is the range of cells that you want to use.

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