This does the trick, so all that’s left to do is press ctrl-b to bold the text. It needs to be centered vertically, so we need to click the Middle Align button in the Alignment group. What’s wrong? Well, the text is centered – horizontally. Next click and hold down your mouse button where the 2 graphs meet, then drag it into a new blank space or cell. Then, go to the 'Home' tab and click the 'Merge & Center' drop-down menu and select the first 'Merge & Center' option. Hold on, we selected Merge and Center, but the text isn’t centered. To merge two graphs in excel, first select the graph you want to keep on top. Select all of the cells that you like to merge and center to fit the width of your data table. Select Rotate Up, and we should get the following: Now click the Orientation button, also in the Alignment group. Those cells are merged, but we can’t see all the text. Select cells A2 – A14 and then click the Merge and Center button. The text needs to be in the bottom row because we’re going to rotate the text anticlockwise, as we’ll see. Right click the Merge & Center, and select Add to Quick Access Toolbar option, see screenshot: 2. If you think the above methods are troublesome for using, here, you can add the Merge & Center feature into the Quick Access Toolbar. Now, we can type the text “Months of the year – 2010″ in row A14. Merge and center cells by adding the Merge &Center function to Quick Access Toolbar. Suppose we move our table to the right by one cell to make room for a row title. We can also use Merge & Center to center the table header across the. We can see that Merge & Center is a good option for both rows 11 and 12. The Unmerge Cells command on the ribbon does the same thing.
We can do a similar thing vertically for row headings. Unchecking Merge will bring back all cells but without the original content or borders. Cells are merged and title centered! Press Cctrl-b to bold the text and there we have a nice looking title. Select cells A1 to D1 and then click Home > Alignment > Merge and Center.
To merge the cells in excel, select those cells, and from the home menu tab, select Merge & Center from the alignment section. This is quite useful when we need to assign one value of the cell to 2 or more cells. We can do that with just one button: the Merge and Center button. Merge cells in excel is used for merging more than one cell. It would help if we could merge all the cells above the table headings for the title to occupy and also center the title. When we type the title “Sales By Month For 2010″, we can see that it spills out into other cells. This is where Excel’s merge and center command comes in.įor example, look at the following spreadsheet that contains data about sales by month for the year 2010. Often in your worksheets, you’ll need a title or heading to span multiple cells and you’ll want Excel to display the title or heading in the center.