- Merging cells in a spreadsheet means taking two or more cells and
constructing a single cell out of them. When you merge two or more
adjacent horizontal or vertical cells, the cells become one larger
cell that is displayed across multiple columns or rows. When you
merge multiple cells, the contents of only one cell (the upper-left
cell for left-to-right languages, or the upper-right cell for
right-to-left languages) appear in the merged cell. The contents of
the other cells that you merge are deleted. For more details please
go through this MSDN article Merge and unmerge
cells
Simple VBA code for Merging Cell
Sub merg_exp_1()
ActiveSheet.Range("A1:C10").Merge
End Sub
Sample data before and after running the program is shown.
-
Now let us see, If we merge a row what happens. Sample code for this
exercise though general is being tested for one situation only and
it as follow :Sub Merge_Rows() Dim rng As Range Dim rrow As Range Dim rCL As Range Dim out As String Dim dlmt As String dlmt = "," Set rng = ActiveSheet.Range("A1:C5") For Each rrow In rng.Rows out = "" For Each rCL In rrow.Cells If rCL.Value <> "" Then out = out & rCL.Value & dlmt End If Next rCL Application.DisplayAlerts = False rrow.Merge Application.DisplayAlerts = True If Len(rrow.Cells(1).Value) > 0 Then rrow.Cells(1).Value = Left(out, Len(out) - 1) End If Next rrow End Sub
Sample data before and after running the program is shown. You can see this won’t meet your objective.
-
Next we can try merging by column approach. Here also we are trying
for one column i.e. Column B to see the effect. Sample code as
follows.Sub Merge_col_exp() Dim cnum As Integer Dim rng As Range Dim str As String For i = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count To 1 Step -1 cnum = Cells(i, 1).MergeArea.Count Set rng = Range(Cells(i, 2), Cells(i - cnum + 1, 2)) ' only to demonstrate working in 2nd column For Each cl In rng If Not IsEmpty(cl) Then str = str + "," + cl Next If str <> "" Then str = Right(str, Len(str) - 1) Application.DisplayAlerts = False rng.Merge rng = str Application.DisplayAlerts = True str = "" i = i - cnum + 1 Next i End Sub
Sample data before and after running the program is shown. You can see this is closer to your requirement. You can extend functionality of this program by finding Last Column in the Actively used range. Extend program functionality to cover upto last column.
2
solved Merging Rows of column B with the count of already merged rows A