Merge and Unmerge Excel

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No idea without seeing the workbook - sorry. Can you attach it here?

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Sorry - I am none the wiser.

When you merge cells, only the data from the top left cell of the merged range will show. If there is data in any of the other cells, it will be ignored. There is no purpose to it, just the fact that merged cells can only contain one set of data. Is this what you wanted to know?

This is actually quite interesting. By rights, when you UNmerge, I10 should contain District, and I11:I12 should be empty - but I11 also contains District.

However, in the merged style, if you change District to anything else (aabbcc) and then UNmerge, I11 STILL contains District. It's like that word is embedded behind the merged cells.

I will ask for input from other members on this, but I feel I am missing something small.

Originally Posted by Elson CTE

Hi
Have you try to unmerge and observe the changes ?

Yes, of course, but I don't really understand your comments/query.

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It is definitely a phenomenon. I merged and unmerged, it stopped doing it after a few times.

It is a quirk/bug in format painter. If you copy the format from a merged block and paint it to another block with multiple values, it doesn't replace the underlying values when it merges.