Insert row

P

Parker

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four sheets in one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the other three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
B

Bernie Deitrick

Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of that sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider deleting all the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to get rid of any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP
 
P

Parker

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
 
D

David McRitchie

Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
 
P

Parker

David,

Yes it is very small. I will try what you had written and let you know the
outcome.

Thanks for your help

David McRitchie said:
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
all
the of
any in
one
 
P

Parker

David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or at the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
David McRitchie said:
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
all
the of
any in
one
 
D

David McRitchie

where did Ctrl+U take you and how big an area did you select
to copy from the other sheet.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Parker said:
David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or at the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
David McRitchie said:
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of that sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider deleting all
the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to get rid of
any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four sheets in
one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the other
three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this
function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone
help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
P

Parker

David

It stayed right where the A1 cell was and did not move to the end of the
sheet.

Thanks
David McRitchie said:
where did Ctrl+U take you and how big an area did you select
to copy from the other sheet.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or at the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
David McRitchie said:
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of
that
sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider
deleting
all
the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to get
rid
of
any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four
sheets
in
one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the other
three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this
function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone
help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
D

David McRitchie

Sounds like a break through of some kind.
Why don't you just copy the sheet,
Edit, move or copy sheet, check the copy sheet box

Seems like the receiving sheet must be protected
or have merged cells, or hidden rows or columns.

if you are selecting ALL cells from one sheet then you
can only paste into cell A1 of the second sheet by
either selecting A1 or by selecting the entire sheet.
Your subject title says "insert row".
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Parker said:
David

It stayed right where the A1 cell was and did not move to the end of the
sheet.

Thanks
David McRitchie said:
where did Ctrl+U take you and how big an area did you select
to copy from the other sheet.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or at the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything
else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of that
sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider deleting
all
the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to get rid
of
any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four sheets
in
one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the
other
three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this
function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone
help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
G

Gord Dibben

Try CRTL + END keys.

CRTL + U is shortcut for underline in my Excel 2002.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

David

It stayed right where the A1 cell was and did not move to the end of the
sheet.

Thanks
David McRitchie said:
where did Ctrl+U take you and how big an area did you select
to copy from the other sheet.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or at the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything
else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of that
sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider deleting
all
the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to get rid
of
any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four sheets
in
one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the
other
three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this
function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone
help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
D

David McRitchie

The End key would definitely work better don't know what I was thinking of.

David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel
 
P

Parker

Gord and David,

Thanks for all your help! I'll take your advice and move or copy the file
and try the ctrl+end and let you know.


Gord Dibben said:
Try CRTL + END keys.

CRTL + U is shortcut for underline in my Excel 2002.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

David

It stayed right where the A1 cell was and did not move to the end of the
sheet.

Thanks
David McRitchie said:
where did Ctrl+U take you and how big an area did you select
to copy from the other sheet.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

David,

I still did not find cells with content on any iof the rows near or
at
the
end. But all 65000+ rows are on this sheet. Should these extra rows be
deleted in order to find where the content is? Or is there an easier way!?

Thank you for Your continued help
Is the scroller within the scrollbar real small ?

Try Ctrl+U to find out where the last cell is
according to what we expect this should be near you
last possible row -- unless you are trying to copy the
entire worksheet into the middle of something.

Try Ctrl+A to select all cells on worksheet then reduce selection
to those that are blank with

Edit, Go To, Special (button), Blanks

anything that is not selected and within the range A1
through the last cell has content.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Hello Bernie,

I did not see anything on the last row or the last column! Anything
else I
should look for??

Thanks Again!
Parker,

Sounds like he accidentally put some values in the last row of that
sheet.
Go down to the last row and see what's there, and consider deleting
all
the
rows between there and the area that he is actually using to
get
rid
of
any
spurious values.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

Hello,

I have a user that is trying to insert a row on one of four sheets
in
one
excel file. On the first one he cannot insert a row but on the
other
three
he can. The error message teels him that he cannot perform this
function
because it will lose data. I am not an expert on excel! Can anyone
help
me??

Thanks in advance
 
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