Remove Blank Rows in Excel using Java

Follow this article to remove blank rows in Excel using Java, which includes the capability to remove blank columns. Get the IDE settings to establish the environment, a list of programming steps, and a ready-to-run sample code to delete empty lines in Excel using Java. It will also introduce options to customize the process of removing blank rows and columns from the target Excel file.

Steps to Delete Blank Lines in Excel using Java

  1. Establish the environment to use Aspose.Cells for Java to remove blank rows in an Excel file
  2. Load the source Excel file with blank rows and columns in the data
  3. Access the sheets collection and select the sheet where you want to eliminate the blank rows
  4. Access the CellsCollection on the sheet and call the deleteBlankRows() function
  5. Repeat the process for blank columns using the deleteBlankColumns() method if required
  6. Save the output

These steps define the process to eliminate blank rows in Excel using Java. Load the target Excel file and access the cells collection from the sheet where you want to remove blank rows and columns. Call the deleteBlankRows() to delete all the blank rows from the sheet and deleteBlankColumns() for all the columns.

Code to Delete All Blank Rows in Excel using Java

This code demonstrates how to remove all blank rows in Excel using Java. You have observed the removal of blank rows using the deleteBlankRows() method without any arguments. However, you may use the DeleteOptions class to set the flag to update references on other sheets and use it as an argument in the deleteBlankRows() method.

This article has taught us how to remove blank rows and columns in a sheet. To insert rows in an Excel sheet, refer to the article on How to insert rows in Excel using Java.

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