#MERGE CELLS IN EXCEL HOW TO#

Data containing merged cells can not be treated like a normal data table РІР‚вЂњ meaning that we canРІР‚в„ўt use all of the tools that we might want to use for referring to a properly formatted data table, such as pivot tables, SUMIF, etc.

#MERGE CELLS IN EXCEL HOW TO#

The purpose of this articleР’В is not to teach you how to Merge Cells in Excel, but to provide some practical advice on some issues surrounding usingР’В merged cells unnecessarily throughout your spreadsheets. As the information in our example is raw data, weРІР‚в„ўd discourage you from doing any formatting to it at all. To achieve this, you could merge all the heading cells to create one large cell and then centre the text. A typical formatting decision for this type of information is to have the heading centred across the top of the table. If we take a quick lookР’В at the example below, youРІР‚в„ўll see we have a simple Sales Results spreadsheet, with raw data from a number of different Departments and Divisions. One of the main reasons to do this is for reporting or presentationР’В purposes РІР‚вЂњ or simply put, to make a spreadsheet look nice.

Merging cells in a spreadsheet is a process that allows you to join one or more adjacent cells (horizontally or vertically or both) into one larger cell that is then displayed across multiple columns or rows. One of these, which we are discussing today, is the use (or unnecessary use) of merged cells in an Excel spreadsheet. There are a number of РІР‚Сљbasic errors users make in ExcelРІР‚Сњ that results in their spreadsheet life being that much more challenging when it doesnРІР‚в„ўt necessarily need too. This entry was posted in Practical Advice Tip by Brian Krisanski

Merge cells in excel