{"id":1086,"date":"2017-06-27T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:56:25","slug":"reset-excel-spreadsheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/reset-excel-spreadsheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset an Excel Spreadsheet &#8211; Delete your data but not your formulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever built a spreadsheet and then wanted to re-use it, say for the next year, but realized you forgot to save a blank copy? That means you have to delete all the data that was entered into the workbook while being careful not to delete any of your formulas. That can be a tedious process, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be. Here&#8217;s an easy way to delete everything that&#8217;s not a formula.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select everything in your spreadsheet except column and row headings.<\/li>\n<li>Press the <em>F5<\/em> key, or <em>Ctrl+G<\/em> (for Go To), or click the <em>Find &amp; Select<\/em> button on the ribbon and then choose <em>Go To.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In the Go To window, click the <em>Special<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<li>In the Go To Special window, select <em>Constants<\/em> and click OK. This will select everything within your highlighted range that isn&#8217;t a formula.<\/li>\n<li>Press the Delete key on your keyboard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be left with just your formulas so your spreadsheet will be ready to use again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2Fp-ylNU3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever built a spreadsheet and then wanted to re-use it, say for the next year, but realized you forgot to save a blank copy? That means you have to delete all the data that was entered into the workbook while being careful not to delete any of your formulas. That can be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}