Why do i have blank lines in my subtotals results

[Guest]

I have a range of sorted data that I have applied subtotals to. I then
'remove all' subtotals, change a few fields, and then apply the same
subtotals. But, in my new subtotal results, there are a number of blank
lines between my last subtotal line and the Grand Total Subtotal line. I
don't know why this is. I normally just delete all those extra lines, but I
would like to find a better solution to avoiding these empty rows. Thanks.
Bunny

 

[Dave Peterson]

When you inserted the subtotals, more rows were added to the used range.

If you don't select your range to use in Data|Subtotals, then excel will guess
at what range to use. (I like to select my range explicitly before
data|subtotals, data|sort, data|pivot table, etc).

If you don't want to select the range, you could use some of the techniques at
Debra Dalgleish's site to reset that used range.

http://contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused

 

[Guest]

Thanks...this is perfect...just what I was looking for.