How to fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value in Excel?
Supposing you have a large worksheet which is populated with hundreds of blank cells, and now you would like to fill the blank cells with a specific value you like, such as the number of 0. Of course, you can fill them manually or copy and paste one by one, but this is not a good choice for filling large blank cells. Today, I will introduce you some quick tricks to solve this problem.
Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value with Go To Special function
Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value with VBA code
Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value quickly with Kutools for Excel
Fill blank cells with value above / below / right / left with Kutools for Excel
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Fill blank cells with 0 or any other specific values:
Kutools for Excel’s Fill Blank Cells feature can help you to fill blank cells with value above, with liner values, with specific values as you need.
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Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value with Go To Special function
With Go To Special function, you can fill blank cells with whatever values you want.
1. Select the range that you want to fill blank cells.
2. Click Home > Find & Select > Go To Special…to open the Go To Special dialog box. Then choose Blanks option from Select section. See screenshot:
3. Then click OK. All of the blank cells will be selected. Please don’t do anything just input the number or text you want, and then press Ctrl + Enter keys together, and all of the blank cells have been filled with the text “null”. See screenshots:
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Of course you can fill these selected blank cells with the number of 0 too.
Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value with VBA code
Also you can apply the following VBA code to fill blank cells with specific value. Please do as follows:
1. Highlight the range contains multiple blank cells.
2. Click Developer > Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert > Module, then copy and paste the following code into the Module:
Sub FillEmptyBlankCellWithValue()
Dim cell As Range
Dim InputValue As String
On Error Resume Next
InputValue = InputBox("Enter value that will fill empty cells in selection", _
"Fill Empty Cells")
For Each cell In Selection
If IsEmpty(cell) Then
cell.Value = InputValue
End If
Next
End Sub
3. Click 
button to run the code, and a prompt box will appear. You can input any value into the blank box that you need. See screenshot:
Tips: If you need to fill blank cells with the number of 0, you need to enter the 0 in this dialog box.
4. And then click OK to end this procedure. And the specified value has been inserted into the blank cells at once.
Fill blank cells with 0 or other specific value quickly with Kutools for Excel
If you have installed Kutools for Excel, its Fill Blank Cells…function can help you to quickly and conveniently fill blank cells with values, with linear values or with fixed value.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Click Kutools > Insert > Fill Blank Cells, see screenshot:
2. Select the range that you want to fill the blank cells, and in the Fill Blank Cells dialog box,check Fixed Value from the Fill With option and enter the specific value or text in the Filled Value box, see screenshot:
3. Then click OK or Apply. All of the blank cells have been filled with the specified value. see screenshots:
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Fill blank cells with value above / below / right / left with Kutools for Excel
If you want to fill the blank cells with value above or below, the Kutools for Excel’s Fill Blank Cells also can do you a favor. Please do as follows:
1. Select the data range that you want to fill the blanks with value above, and enable the Fill Blank Cells feature.
2. In the Fill Blank Cells dialog box, select Based on values option under the Fill with section, and then choose the options that you want to fill the blank cells, you can fill them down, up, right and left as you need, see screenshot:
3. And then click Ok or Apply button, and the blank cells have been filled with the data above, see screenshots:
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Comments
Sub FillEmptyBlankCellWithValue()
'Fill an empty or blank cell in selection
'with value specified in InputBox
Dim cell As Range
Dim InputValue As String
On Error Resume Next
'Prompt for value to fill empty cells in selection
InputValue = 0 'InputBox("Ente r value that will fill empty cells in selection", _
"Fill Empty Cells")
'Test for empty cell. If empty, fill cell with value given
If Selection.Cells .Count = 1 Then Exit Sub
With Selection
.Cells.SpecialC ells(xlCellType Blanks).Select
With Selection
.Cells.Value = 0
End With
End With
'For Each cell In Selection
'If IsEmpty(cell) Then
'cell.Value = InputValue
'End If
'Next
End Sub
Thanks...
I Also wanna thank my private genius Ohad!
Sub Test()
'This macro will fill all "blank" cells with the text "Test"
'When no range is selected, it starts at A1 until the last used row/column
'When a range is selected prior, only the blank cell in the range will be used.
On Error GoTo ErrHandler:
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).FormulaR1C1 = "Test"
Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
MsgBox "No blank cells found", vbDefaultButton 1, Error
Resume Next
End Sub
Thank you so much!!!
I have problem with inserting specific values existing in a column like (A), to blank cells of another column like (B), automatically.
because of so many rows, the manual cell filling is very difficult. if possible, please help me. a very short example of my data as follow:
A B
3 --
9 86
9 87
17 --
45 --
102
104
210
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215
--
It's very useful.
Thank you very much.
in the template there is no empty field,
evidently after i download the template i found field with empty value
nah.... my question
how if i will insert the empty value with '0' but thats automatic from the template
thankssss boss your answer very help me please