How to Merge Cells Vertically
Learn how to merge cells vertically in Google Sheets to enhance the aesthetics of your spreadsheets. This video covers the steps to merge cells and provides examples of how it can improve your data presentation.
You're going to learn how to merge cells vertically, and why you want to merge cells vertically. In this scenario, we have two lists. They're vertically inclined lists, and so the header of this could very well be just above them, but we've put them to the left. This makes it a little more aesthetically pleasing when we actually merge these cells vertically. We're going to select the cells we want to merge vertically . And we're going to select Merge Cells, this button right next to the borders. We can also select Merge Type and select Merge Vertically. In another scenario we can select our cells we want to vertically merge, and we can go up to Format, Merge Cells, and Merge Vertically. We will have to vertically align and horizontally align. How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets How To Center Text Across Rows and Columns
And we're going to do that exactly the same for the names as well. This really shows up when we add a little bit of color. We're going to make the names a dark yellow and category name, a light yellow. We're going to do the same, but with a blue for the countries and a light blue for the name. And this will really pop if you select view, show and unselect grid lines. Another aesthetic reason we may want to vertically merge our cells is if we want some type of line or eye leading line on the left and the right of our cell. You can see this C5 and 6 have been vertically merged so that we can add the borders around here and have this line intersecting with the header here. Turn Bland Sheets Into Glam Sheets! 150 VCs Actively Investing by Lemon.io Harada Method Template
So in this video, you have found out why we merge cells vertically, and I've given you a few examples to show you how awesome it is. If you want to get more out of your Google Sheets, subscribe here on YouTube on BetterSheets. How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets Absolute Basics of Google Sheets How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets UnMerge Automatically Google Sheets