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Are you looking for a way to delete all the images in your Excel worksheet? You can select all the images and delete them instantly with a few clicks of your mouse! This wikiHow article teaches you how to quickly and easily delete all images in Excel on your computer.
How do you select and delete all images in Excel?
- Open your workbook in Excel.
- Navigate to the worksheet that has the images you want to remove.
- Click the Home tab.
- Click “Find & Select.”
- Click “Go To Special.”
- Click “Objects.”
- Click “OK.”
- Press Delete on your keyboard.
Steps
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Open your workbook in Excel. You can open Excel then click File > Open to open your workbook or you can right-click the file in your file manager and select Open with > Excel.[1]
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Navigate to the worksheet that has the images you want to remove. The sheets are separated by tabs at the bottom of your screen.[2]Advertisement
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Click the Home tab. It's at the top of your screen in the editing ribbon.[3]
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Click Find & Select. You'll find this in the "Editing" grouping.[4]
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Click Go To Special. It's near the middle of the menu that dropped down from "Find & Select."[5]
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Click to fill in the circle next to Objects and click OK. This will prompt Excel to locate and select all the objects in your current worksheet.[6]
- Not only will Excel select all the images in your sheet, but it will also select any objects in the sheet including charts, shapes, screenshots, icons, 3D models, and SmartArt. If there are objects you don't want to select, click them to unselect them.
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Press Delete on your keyboard. Pressing this will instantly delete and remove all the selected objects from your Excel sheet.
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References
- ↑ https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/excel2016/creating-and-opening-workbooks/1/
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/select-worksheets-096b40c9-0ee7-4980-bac6-cc92aec7b266
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-select-cells-that-meet-specific-conditions-2d686424-6150-4015-a8e4-a5990f4d7e3a
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-select-cells-that-meet-specific-conditions-2d686424-6150-4015-a8e4-a5990f4d7e3a
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-select-cells-that-meet-specific-conditions-2d686424-6150-4015-a8e4-a5990f4d7e3a
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-select-cells-that-meet-specific-conditions-2d686424-6150-4015-a8e4-a5990f4d7e3a
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1. Open your workbook in Excel.
2. Navigate to the worksheet that has the images you want to remove.
3. Click the Home tab.
4. Click Find & Select.
5. Click Go To Special.
6. Click to fill the circle next to Objects and click OK.
7. Press Delete on your keyboard.