Excel’s default behavior of treating blank cells as zeros arises from its inability to return a truly blank cell in a formula. Instead, it substitutes blank cells with zeros during calculations.

If you want to count blank or empty cells in Excel and Google Sheets, here are the exact formulas you need to use. There are three ways to count blank or empty cells in any spreadsheet and here we ...

The Excel ISBLANK function returns TRUE if cell value is blank and False if the cell is not blank, and it is also an information function.

Deleting blank rows in an Excel data set isn't difficult, but Excel 2016 is the only version that offers predictable results.

Microsoft Excel 2010 does not plot hidden rows or columns, so you need to hide the empty rows or columns. Strangely, in Excel 2010, unhiding the data is easier than hiding it.

If there are many blank rows in your Excel sheet, you can delete them and tidy up the document using the "Find and Select" feature. Here's how.