Large spreadsheets and excessive requests for edits can leave you swimming in data in your Excel workbook.
Once you have finalized the file and are ready to share it with others, you might discover that you need to delete a worksheet tab in Excel 2013 that is no longer relevant to what you are accomplishing.
I find that most of the spreadsheets I work on start as a huge, single worksheet containing all of the relevant information, but that it needs to be simplified or reorganized for the purposes of the person that will be reading the file.
My preferred method for staying organized in these situations is to separate things across worksheets. Then, I can follow the steps below to delete worksheets that are not important for the result I am trying to achieve.
Delete a Tab in Excel 2013
As mentioned above, the tabs at the bottom of the Excel 2013 window signify an individual worksheet.
It can be helpful to separate parts of a worksheet into separate sheets for organizational purposes, but less experienced Excel users can easily be confused by the tabs.
So if you have tabs that are not relevant to what you are doing, then you can follow our steps below to delete those tabs. Note that this will delete the worksheet that the tab is identifying as well.
Step 1: Open your Excel file that contains the worksheet that you want to delete.
Step 2: Locate your worksheet tabs at the bottom of the window.
Step 3: Right-click the tab that you want to delete, then click the Delete option.
Now that you know how to delete a worksheet tab in Excel 2013, you will be able to quickly remove an entire worksheet that you don’t need from your Excel workbook file.
Would you like to make your worksheet tabs easier to identify? Change the color of a tab with the steps in this article.
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