Clear Cells

Specifies the contents to be deleted from the active cell or from a selected cell range. If several sheets are selected, all selected sheets will be affected.

To access this command...

From the menu bar:

Choose Sheet - Clear Cells.

From the context menu:

Choose Clear Contents.

From toolbars:

Clear Cells

From the keyboard:

Backspace

This dialogue box is also called by pressing Backspace after the cell cursor has been activated on the sheet.

Pressing Delete deletes content without calling the dialogue box or changing formats.

Use Cut on the Standard bar to delete content and formats without the dialogue box.

Selection

This area lists the options for deleting contents.

Delete All

Deletes all content from the selected cell range.

Text

Deletes text only. Formats, formulae, numbers and dates are not affected.

Numbers

Deletes numbers only. Formats and formulae remain unchanged.

Date & time

Deletes date and time values. Formats, text, numbers and formulae remain unchanged.

Formulae

Deletes formulae. Text, numbers, formats, dates and times remain unchanged.

Comments

Deletes comments added to cells. All other elements remain unchanged.

Formats

Deletes format attributes applied to cells. All cell content remains unchanged.

Objects

Deletes objects. All cell content remains unchanged.