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Excel allows you to easily add graphics to a worksheet. This can be helpful at times, but at other times you may want to delete all the graphics in a worksheet. The easiest way to delete all the graphics is to follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Go To Special dialog box.
This solution works only if there are no other objects (besides graphics) in your worksheet. If you have other objects that you don't want deleted, then all you need to do is perform steps 1 through 4, and then hold down the Ctrl key as you use the mouse to click on each object you don't want deleted. When you are satisfied with the objects selected, finish up by following step 5.
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2018-04-14 12:21:04
Ruthie A. Ward
I sometimes process data for others using a workbook that contains macros attached to buttons and I also comment various cells or columns. After I finish processing, I hand the workbook over to the person for whom I'm processing data. My last step of processing is to use a macro from my QAT to remove all the shapes on each worksheet except for the comments and then save a copy. That copy is then passed on to the end user. This allows me to have a "template" ready to go to process the next batch of data and give the end user a product that is graphic-free and, if needed, commented.
2018-04-13 04:24:02
Mike Hodkinson
Thanks for sharing.
An alternative suggestion for deleting all graphics:
Select just one graphic then use Ctrl + A (select all) and then press the delete key.
Works for me.
Hope you find this of interest and assistance.
Best regards
Mike H
2018-04-13 03:09:28
saskia
There is another approach: with the selectionpane. That gives an overview of all the object on the current sheet. You can select one object by clicking on it, ore select more object by Ctrl+clicking.
Here it is also possible to (temporarely) hide an object (by clicking on the "eye" on the right). Unhide it by clocking another time on an object.
You find the selection pane with Start > (group Editing) Find&Select > Selection Pane (I hope this is the correct translation in English, because I am using the Dutch interface language).
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