Excel will give you a warning message telling that you will lose the data, when you try to merge cells using the Merge & Center feature. In this article, we're going to show you how to merge cells in Excel without losing your data. Show
This is just brilliant! Too good! Going to use this everyday now!
hi Sumit, what is this “video like” screenshot called and also how to make it?
The Center Across Selection button/icon can be directly added to the QAT.
What if I would like to merge cells in different rows in a single column?
Good post. Thanks for sharing. I use ‘Center Across selection’ sometimes. I wish that it was easier to apply it without having to go through format dialog box. 🙂 Comments are closed. We use Excel sheets for different kinds of projects. If you want to merge cells in excel or combining text from one or more cells is vital when we are editing it. Sometimes we may lose data in this process. Here we guide you with simple steps on merging data cells without losing any data. Let us get started. Text from multiple cells can be combined into one cell by using the ampersand (&) operator. To combine the text in two cells A1 and B1, steps to be followed are as follows:
How to Merge Cells in Excel?To merge the cells in excel, Merge and Center option can be used in the home tab. But using this option, cells can be combined but not the text. When we select the cells and use the “Merge and Center” option, it will keep the writing from the leftmost cell and remove the text from all other cells. To merge the cells without losing text, we can use the “CONCATENATE” function. To merge cells without losing text, we can use the “Center across selection” option as an alternative to joining and Center option. How to combine cells in Excel?To combine the cells in excel, we have various options.
Excel concatenates multiple cells. Concatenate function helps us to combine the content from multiple cells into one destination cell without retyping all the text. Steps to be followed to concatenate are: Initially, we have to select the cell in which combined text to be placed. Then type the function into the cell, which starts with an equal sign (=) followed by concatenating. =CONCATENATE. Arguments can be entered in two ways, Method 1 First, we have to open the parenthesis, type the cell references (A2, B2) separated by commas and then close the brackets at the end. =CONCATENATE (A1, B1). Otherwise, we can click on the A2 cell, type a comma, then click on the B2 cell and then type the closing parenthesis. If you see an alert message, click on yes. Now we have to press ENTER after adding the cell references to the concatenate function. No space is found between the combined texts as the concatenate function combines precisely what is in the arguments. Method 2 You can also use =A1&B1 to merge shells data Method 3 =CONCATENATE (A5, “”, B5) To fill sequential data into Excel with the fill handle, we need not type the function in every cell in the column. We can quickly copy the function to the other cell. Excel merge cells vertically without losing dataThe quick and simple way to combine two or more cells vertically is to use the built-in merge option combined with center option.
Align the text after merging.
Also Read: How to Merge Excel Files and Sheets Why can’t I merge cells in excelSeveral reasons make cells unable to be merged The most common reasons are:
When you are cell is in a table, you have to merge it before creating the table. When your cell is in a protected cell editing is denied In such cases, we need first to unlock the sheet and then go for the merging option. There are many other problems that will not allow merging the cells. They are:
Merge data in excelCombining the cells using & symbol
Combining using the concatenate function
There are some problems in which merging becomes an issue. We need to take care of the problems accordingly and later merge them. You can merge cells horizontally and vertically into a single cell. Aligning is the crucial point here, and do not forget to get the data to the center. |