Hide Zeores in the Selected Cells Using Conditional Formatting

In this method, we will be using the Conditional Formatting option and setting the rule to hide the zero-value cells in the worksheet. This method is really useful when we want to hide zero values within a specific range. Also, using this method not only we can hide the zero-value cell but we can also highlight the cells which are having zero values.

Step 1: Access the Home Tab and Select Conditional Formatting

Open your dataset sheet and go to Home > Styles > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Equal To and click on the Equal To option.

Step 2: A Pop Up Box Displayed

Once we click on the Equal To option, it will open a popup asking how we want our zero-value cells.

In the above picture, we are formatting cells equal to zero with Green color. This formatting rule will fill the zero value cells with green color in the selected dataset. After setting the rules we need to click on the OK button.

It also gives flexibility to ultimately make the cells blank by using a custom white color. In the following steps, we can see how we can do that. For this, we need to repeat the first two steps (Step 1 & Step 2) and In step 2 we need to select the Custom Format option.

Step 3: Go to Font and Select Colors

Once we click on the OK button, a popup will come we need to go to Font > Color and select a white color.

Once we click the OK button after selecting our custom color (Here, white) Excel will hide the cells with zero values with a white background.

Microsoft Excel enables us to format, organize and calculate data in a spreadsheet. It’s a great tool for preparing datasets and it makes those datasets easier for users and analysts to analyze the data. Sometimes these datasets contain zero values that are not required to be seen. Excel provides an easy way to hide those zero values without affecting the data and the datasets. Whenever we have a large dataset, many of the data values in the dataset may be zero and as per requirement, we may need to hide those zero values and leave the cells empty. Let’s learn how we can Hide Zero Values In Excel.

Hiding Zero Values in Excel

Let’s assume we have the following dataset, showing the sales of different courses in different cities.

We can see that our dataset contains zero(0) elements that we need to remove. This can be easily done by removing each 0 entry one by one for such a small dataset. But If we have a massive dataset with thousands of entries it became very difficult to remove elements manually.