Microsoft Excel is a program that is part of the Office suite and focuses on working with numerical data and formulas. Despite all this, one of its main features is the user interface that we find as soon as we run the application. It is full of cells that if we are not used to it, they can create a bit of confusion.
Despite all this and with the passage of time and the use of the program, we will realize that, when working with the aforementioned numbers, this is the best way. The cells to which we refer could be considered as independent desktop elements on which we are working. This interface format allows us to work with an infinite number of independent spaces, if we so wish.
Obviously we can also make them work together and relate these cells to each other to form the usual spreadsheets. At the same time, it may be the case that we need to unite and form a single cell from several. This can be useful for both appearance and functionality. And it is that we must bear in mind that, if we work with large spreadsheets, a good structure and order of these can be essential.
Merge multiple cells in Excel with Merge and Center
The first thing we should know in this regard is that Microsoft’s spreadsheet program offers us its own function for these tasks. Thus, once we find the main interface of the application, the first thing we do is select those cells that we want to join into one. We do this with the main mouse button by directly dragging the pointer over them.
Once they have been marked, in the main Excel interface we go to the Start menu. Next, we look at the section called Alignment where we find a button in its lower right corner that also contains a drop-down list. We click on it where we will see the option called Combine and center. Once we have opted for that option we will see how automatically all the cells that we had selected become a larger one.
In this way we achieve the objective we were looking for here, to join cells in Excel to form a single cell from several elements of this point type.
Use the context menu of the spreadsheet program
But that is not the only system by which we can achieve the objective that we have set ourselves here. We can also make use of the context menu offered by the Microsoft application. As in the previously mentioned case, the first thing we do in Excel is mark the cells that we want to join. But in this case, once they are selected, we click on them with the right mouse button.
In the context menu that appears, select the Format Cells option. In the new window that appears we find several tabs, and in this case we opted for the so-called Alignment. To get what we are looking for in these lines, we just have to check the selectors located in the Wrap text and Merge cells entries. When closing this window we will see how again all the marked cells become a larger one. At the same time, if these Excel cells had data, they will have been perfectly adjusted to the new cell that we have created.
