How to Delete Rows with Negative Values in Excel

Negative values can occasionally interfere with data analysis or calculations, and deleting them might help you focus on the good parts of your data. Excel provides effective options for filtering out undesired rows with negative values, whether you're working with financial records, survey results, or any other type of data. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of detecting and eliminating rows in your Excel spreadsheet that have negative values.

Deleting Excel Rows with Negative Values

Here we will first create a VBA module and select the range of cells to complete the task. So let us see a simple process to learn how you can delete rows with negative values in Excel.

Step 1 : Consider an Excel sheet where you have rows with negative values, similar to the one shown below:

First, right−click on the sheet name and select "View Code" to open the VBA application.

Right click > View Code.

Step 2 : Then click on Insert, select Module, and copy the below code into the text box.

Insert > Module > Copy.

Example

Sub Deleter()
    Dim xRg As Range
    Dim xCell As Range
    Dim xTxt As String
    Dim I As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    xTxt = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Address
Sel:
    Set xRg = Nothing
    Set xRg = Application.InputBox("please select the data range:", "Delete Rows Negative", xTxt, , , , , 8)
    If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
    If xRg.Areas.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox "does not support multiple selections, please select again", vbInformation, "Delete Rows Negative"
        GoTo Sel
    End If
    If xRg.Columns.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox "does not support multiple columns, please select again", vbInformation, "Delete Rows Negativel"
        GoTo Sel
    End If
    For I = xRg.Rows.Count To 1 Step -1
        If xRg.Cells(I) < 0 Then xRg.Cells(I).EntireRow.Delete
    Next
End Sub

Step 3 :Then click F5 to run the code, select the range of cells containing the negative values, and click Ok. Then you can see that rows with negative values will be deleted.

F5 > Select cells > Ok.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have used a simple example to demonstrate how you can delete rows with negative values in Excel to highlight a particular set of data.