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Excel Cells Not Merging: 5 Ways to Fix This Issue
You can repair your workbook or try converting the table to range
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
updated onOctober 4, 2023
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MS Excelis a powerful toolthat comes with a plethora of great features to represent or get meaningful information out of a dataset. Merging cells is another great feature when you want to format the heading or center just to present the dataset in a proper manner.
However, there are reports where users have complained that for them, Excel cells are not merging. In this guide, we will give you five solutions that will help you get rid of the issue. Let us check them out.
Why aren’t the MS Excel cells merging?
After some research, we have found a few reasons that might be restricting you from merging cells in your MS Excel spreadsheet:
These are the three main reasons why you are facing MS Excel cells not merging issues.
What can I do if Excel cells are not merging?
Here are a few things that you can do before applying the advanced solutions:
Now, let us take a look at the solutions that will help you resolve this problem.
1. Merge cells in a table using the context menu
2. Unprotect your workbook
The protected workbook will prevent you from editing, let alone merging cells. In such a case, you can follow the steps above and unprotect your cells.
Then you can follow solution 1 and convert the data to the range and then apply the merge function to merge the selected cells.
3. Unshare your workbook
4. Disable Add-Ins
Often add-ins can interfere with the smooth functioning of the MS Excel program. While we install add-ins to enhance the functionality of the program, they can cause issues such as Excel cells not merging problems.
In this case, we would suggest you disable all the add-ins by following the above steps and then trying to merge cells in your workbook.
5. Repair your workbook
Often workbooks get corrupted, or data in them get lost, which could be an issue if you aren’t able to merge cells in Excel. Simply follow the above steps, repair your workbook, and check if this resolves the issue or not.
These are some of the best solutions to apply when cells are not merging in MS Excel. Well, you will come across other issues with MS Excel as well.
For users facingExcel won’t scroll downerrors, we have a guide that lists some effective solutions to resolve it. We also have a guide on theExcel toolbar missingto fix the issue.
Moreover, if you want to know how you canopen two Excel side by sideto improve efficiency, you can refer to our guide. Also, did you know that you canopen multiple Excel files at once?
We also have a dedicated guide for those whoaren’t able to open Excel on their Windows 11PCs. Let us know in the comments below which one of the above solutions helped you fix the cells that are not merging in MS Excel.
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Sagar Naresh
Sagar is a web developer and technology journalist. Currently associated with WindowsReport and SamMobile. When not writing, he is either at the gym sweating it out or playing country music on his guitar.
He is an avid traveler and has been to 15 countries, going to more places soon. TRAVEL and WORK is his mantra for a peaceful life.
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