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Asked: 2026-05-29T21:34:41+00:00

I have an Excel worksheet that has 30k+ rows. I’d like to cut the

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I have an Excel worksheet that has 30k+ rows. I’d like to cut the first 14k rows, but manually doing it (highlighting selected columns with mouse) seems like an insane waste of time.

How can I do this pro grammatically? I don’t actually have scripting experience in Excel, but I can program in PHP. I’m sure I could use the PHPExcel module at PEAR to create a script that can copy the first 14k rows and insert it into a new spreadsheet object, but that seems a lot more complicated for what I need.

Another option would be to save the Excel file as a csv file and import into a mysql database table. The problem with this is that the reason I need to cut the first 14k rows is that those columns aren’t correctly aligned (whereas the remainder are), which makes a db import a problem.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you insist on doing it programmatically, the syntax is:
    range("1:14000").cut

    Otherwise, selecting manually IS quicker, if you know how to do it:
    press ctrl+G (short for Edit, Go to) then type 1:14000, then press Enter. Done.
    With MS-Office, the first rule has always been: the best program is no program.

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