How to Identify and Select all Merged Cells in Excel?

In this article, users will understand how to identify and select all merger cells in Excel. This article contains three examples, first example is based on the process of using the VBA code, the second process allows user the to find and select a method, and finally, the third option allows the user to use the Kutools options. Excel merging cells allow the user to improve the visual layout and organization of data.

Some most common benefits of merging cells are :

• Included improving the readability and presentation of data.

• Allow users to change the data alignment and centering.

Example 1: To Identify all merged cells in the excel data with the help of VBA code.

Step 1

In this example, will learn the process to identify all the available merged cells in Excel with the help of the VBA code. To understand the example, consider the below-provided data with some merged cells. A snapshot for reference is provided below:

Step 2

After that click on the sheet tab, and select the “View Code” option. A snapshot for reference is provided below:

Step 3

The above step will open a “Microsoft Visual Basic for Application” dialog box. This step will display an empty code area to write and execute the VBA code. A snapshot for reference is provided below:

Step 4

Type the below-provided code into the code editor. Use proper code indentation to avoid compile time errors:

Sub determine_merged_cells()
' declaring required variables
Dim cell_x As Range
' for each loop
For Each cell_x In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
' if expression to merge cell
If cell_x.MergeCells Then
' setting color to obtain merged cells
cell_x.Interior.ColorIndex = 7
' end of if block
End If
' end of next block
Next
' end of sub module
End Sub

Step 5

After that click on the “Run” button, as provided below. A snapshot for reference is provided below:

Step 6

The above step will highlight all the merged cells with pink color.

Example 2: To Identify and select all merged cells in the Excel data with the help of the find command.

Step 1

Again, consider the same worksheet. In this example, will use the find command to identify and determine the merged cells with the find command. A Snapshot of Excel for reference is provided below:

Step 2

After that use key combination “Ctrl+F”, and then click on the format button. Snapshot for reference is depicted below:

Step 3

The above step will open a Find Format” dialog box. After that click on the “Alignment” tab, and then in the text control dialog box, select the third option “Merge cells”, and finally click on the “OK” button. A snapshot for user reference is provided below:

Step 4

The above step will display the list of all the merged cells together. Simply select one record, and press “Ctrl+A” command combination, or manually select all the values.

Step 5

The above step will highlight all the required cells, snapshot for output is provided below:

Example 3: To Identify and select all merged cells in the excel data with the help of kutools.

Step 1

In this article will consider some sample data. Refer the snapshot to understand the data available in the sheet. In this example will be using the kutools to display the available merged cells together.

Step 2

First, select the available data. Further, click on the “Kutools” tab, further select the “Editing” tab, and click on the “Select” tile. After that click on “Select Merged Cells”. A snapshot for reference is provided below:

Step 3

After the successful completion of the above step, the user will observe a “kutools for Excel” dialog that contains a message for “2 merged cells”. Please understand that right now there are 2 merged cells in the available data. The appeared dialog box contains the total number of available merged cells, within the selected data. Finally, click on the “OK” button. snapshot for user reference is provided below:

Conclusion

This article is based on the process of identifying and selecting all the merged cells in Excel. These merged cells are used to increase the field size, and many other purposes. The users must write the declaration of variable and function definition properly in VBA code to run the program properly as prescribed in example 2.