If there is a way to avoid using the merge button itself, and achieve the same result that would be perfect.

For example, you may want to combine several cells for a better data presentation or structure.

In other cases, there may be too much content to be displayed in one cell, and you decide to merge it with adjacent blank cells.

And further on in this tutorial, you will find a few solutions that work in all versions of Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010 and lower.

If you are looking to combine two or more cells with data in them, check out How to merge cells without losing data.

Press the Enter key to cancel the Edit mode, and then try to merge cells.

You have to convert a table to a usual range first (right click the table and select Table Convert to Range from the context menu), and then combine the cells.

And although Microsoft has made quite a lot of improvements in the recent versions of Excel, the Merge Cells functionality seems to have slipped out of their attention and this critical limitation persists even in Excel 2013 and Excel 2016.

However, it requires that all the cells to be merged reside in one area in one column.

Also, you can separate the values with any delimiter of your choosing such as a comma, space, slash or line break.

If this box is not checked, the add-in will work like the Excel CONCATENATE function, i.e.

You can employ the CONCATENATE function or Excel operator to join the cells values first, and then merge the cells if needed.

Not to lose the value in the second cell during merging, concatenate the two cells by using either of the following formulas.

If you do need to merge two cells with the original data, A2 and B2 in this example, then a few extra steps are required.

To do this, right click the cell and select Paste Special Values from the context menu.

An advantage of this approach is that you can separate values with different delimiters within a single formula, for example.

If you choose the latter, Microsoft Excel will display a list of all found merged cells and let you navigate between them by selecting one of the merged cells in this list.

I thank you for reading and hope to see on our blog next week.

I am looking for a shortcut or the easiest way to merge the cells with same values with in the column without impacting any other columnsRows.

If you click next you can format the cells if need be (such as number, text, etc).

Each country takes up three rows of data e.g.

Australia Australia Australia Bahrain Bahrain Bahrain.

I know I can use the format painter to do this but this makes further updating of the spreadsheet difficult for users who do not know what I have done.

Command For Merging Cells In Excel Mac