When using the 'while not TADOQuery.Eof' with an microsoft Excel Workbook, it's including rows which are completely empty. Is there a way to stop including any rows that are completely blank as I don't need them?
You could exclude blank lines in the SQL used to open the spreadsheet. If the first row contains column headings like 'Column1', 'Column2', etc then the following SQL will not return rows where the value in the first column is blank
select * from [sheet1$]
where Column1 <> ''
Obviously the SQL could be a bit more specific (in terms of column values) about what you regard as constituting a blank row.
You'll have gathered that there are various ways to deal with variations in the contents of the column headers, but as the other answer shows, these are likely to be far more verbose than simply skipping blank rows inside the body of your main while not EOF loop to read the table contents, so I can't really see any benefit to not doing it by just skipping the blank rows.
Btw, ime the Excel data accessible via SQL behaves as though the query is automatically restricted to the UsedRange range in the Excel COM interface.