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Why so many blank records (update?)

  • April 23, 2018
  • 3 replies
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I know there was a post from August of '17 on this topic but I don’t see any update on the status…

  1. Is there any solution to this problem?
  2. What is causing the creation of the blank records?

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  • Participating Frequently
  • 5 replies
  • April 25, 2018
  1. Watch where you’re clicking.
  2. Blank or empty records are created inadvertently when a user clicks to deselect a record, but Airtable interprets this as quickly adding a new record.

This is truly just “watch we’re you’re clicking”. This happened to me a lot in the beginning, but once I realized what was going on I adapted.


  • New Participant
  • 1 reply
  • June 6, 2018

When I use the embed form on a web site and add a record to a table that way, it adds the record fine but with a blank line, so if I use this way for data entry, for every record I enter, I will also get one blank line? Am I doing something wrong?


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  • Inspiring
  • 368 replies
  • April 5, 2020

If you just want those blank records to be deleted automatically, you can use this tool that we built. It can be scheduled to run regularly.