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Delete worksheets

Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Select the sheets you want to delete.

Show How?

When you enter or change data, the changes affect all selected sheets. These changes may replace data on the active sheet and other selected sheets.

To select	Do this
A single sheet	Click the sheet tab. If you don't see the tab you want, click the tab scrolling buttons to display the tab, and then click the tab.
Two or more adjacent sheets	Click the tab for the first sheet, and then hold down SHIFT and click the tab for the last sheet.
Two or more nonadjacent sheets	Click the tab for the first sheet, and then hold down CTRL and click the tabs for the other sheets.
All sheets in a workbook	Right-click a sheet tab, and then click Select All Sheets on the shortcut menu (shortcut menu: A menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular item. To display a shortcut menu, right-click an item or press SHIFT+F10.).

Note If sheet tabs have been color-coded, the sheet tab name will be underlined in a user-specified color when selected. If the sheet tab is displayed with a background color, the sheet has not been selected.

Show Cancel a selection of multiple sheets

To cancel a selection of multiple sheets in a workbook, click any unselected sheet.

If no unselected sheet is visible, right-click the tab of a selected sheet. Then click Ungroup Sheets on the shortcut menu.

On the Edit menu, click Delete Sheet.