Just a thought, from someone who has “unmerged” many cells in many peoples’ spreadsheets over the years. Their beauty is in their functionality and when functionality is lost, nobody will really care much about how the top row looks. I understand the desire to beautify a workbook, but clearly labeled columns with long lines of uninterrupted data are the truly beautiful spreadsheets. Whether you choose to center across or merge cells, I think it is an important question to ask yourself, why are you wanting to do this? Is it truly necessary? When at all possible, I would recommend avoiding either of these practices. This still will be somewhat limiting for instance, you may still have difficulty with a PivotTable unless you convert this to a Table first, but you will not experience nearly as many drawbacks as merged cells. Appearance wise, it will look just like merged cells. Repeat this step with C1 and D1 selected, then E1 and F1 selected. In the popup screen, go to the Alignment tab, and click on the dropdown next to Horizontal. Select A1 and B1, and Right Click on top of them. Select the merged areas, then go to the Home tab, Alignment group, select the dropdown for Merge and Center, and select Unmerge cells.Ģ. If you are truly attached to the look of merged cells, there is another option. It is worth mentioning that there are macros that can be interfered with when you use merged cells it depends on what type of macro you are building.Īll in all, merged cells are just not worth the trouble. How annoying! We could probably find our way around this formula issue, but even then, I guarantee these merged cells will get in your way with a future formula. look what happens:Įxcel doesn’t want to allow me to include column D alone… it wants to include Column C as well. In I1 I entered =Countif( … then I tried to select my range, column D…. Let’s say I want to count the number of 22 year old students in my class. (Shameless plug: come to an Excel: Pivot Tables training if you would like to learn more.) Formulas this means that Excel doesn’t know what our categories are to create a PivotTable. What is this? We are receiving an error because we don’t have true column labels (header row) when cells are merged like they are in our top row. Maybe instead, we can make a PivotTable from the data, and pivot by the letter grade? Go to the Insert tab, and select PivotTable. Normally I would have the opportunity to filter by letter grade, but because E1 and F1 were merged cells, Excel instead only offers for you to filter by grade %. Now, Go to the dropdown created next to Grade. Click anywhere in the top row, and on the right side of the Home tab, select Sort and Filter, and Filter.Ģ. You want to filter by all students with an A.ġ. Let’s say I would like to use the custom Filter buttons we play with in Excel Essentials. There are actually quite a few ways that merged cells can be problematic. Perhaps someone did this in an attempt to make their spreadsheet look less cluttered? Let’s see why this might have been a bad idea. If you select any of these, notice in your A lignment group that Merge and Center is selected. The first row of data contains 3 sets of merged cells: A1 with B1 C1 with D1 and E1 with F1. This is a fictional list of students and grades, with some merged cells at the top. If you would like to follow along with my demonstration below, here is an Exercise file: MergedCells That being said… not only is the beauty of a spreadsheet less important than its functionality, which is definitely adversely affected by merged cells… but there is actually a way to alter the appearance identically to merging cells without all of the many disadvantages that come with merged cells. People usually merge cells in an attempt to make a spreadsheet look nicer. Recent ClippyPoint Milestones !Ĭongratulations and thank you to these contributors DateĪ community since MaDownload the official /r/Excel Add-in to convert Excel cells into a table that can be posted using reddit's markdown.Friends don’t let friends merge cells! This is something you hear often among Excel enthusiasts. Include a screenshot, use the tableit website, or use the ExcelToReddit converter (courtesy of u/tirlibibi17) to present your data.
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