Is there a way to delete all cells at once in jupyter?

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I everyday try out my solutions before answering a pandas question in stack overflow . Usually after two to three days the jupyter notebook I use will be with n number of cells. Is there a way to delete all cells at once other than creating new notebook by deleting current one?

D D deletes one cell at a time.

Mohamed Ali JAMAOUI · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-18 20:55:34Z

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You can delete all Jupyter notebook's cells at once as follows:

Select all cells : ESC + SHIFT + DOWN (starting from the top)
Then click ESC + D D (D twice)

edited Mar 18, 2021 at 20:55

answered Nov 23, 2017 at 15:45

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Bharath M Shetty Over a year ago

Awesome wasnt aware of selecting at all. Thank you @MedAli

Pyd Over a year ago

how to undo deleted cell ?

Khalil Al Hooti Over a year ago

@pyd click z in the keyboard

flow2k Over a year ago

Still would be nice if Jupyter had a command to select all (Shift + down arrow is more of a "scrolling" solution). But this works.

Pierre ALBARÈDE Over a year ago

To select all, indeed scrolling down with the down arrow takes a long time because everything is displayed. This is faster: select (click) the first cell, then scroll down with the window scrolling bar and SHIFT select the last cell. (JNB version 6.1.4.)

T. Vuong · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-14 02:58:59Z

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<ESC><CTRL-A> Select all cells
<ESC><D><D> Delete all selected cells

<ESC>P will bring up the list of commands and key bindings

answered Jun 14, 2023 at 2:58

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HashTag Sep 1 at 14:31

Seeing this in 2025!. Really helpful shortcuts. Thanks

itny grad · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-09 07:31:11Z

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Hit esc to exit edit mode
Click to select the topmost cell you want to delete. in jupyterlab, a blue vertical line appears to the cell's left.
Hit end to scroll to the bottom of the notebook
Shift-click the last cell (similar to step 2) to select the range of cells to delete.
Hit d, d to delete all the selected cells.

Hope that helps.

edited Jul 9, 2021 at 7:31

answered Jul 9, 2021 at 7:20

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