Unmerging Cells – SolveXia

The Unmerge cells instruction allows you to unmerge cells that have previously been merged within an Excel workbook. The instruction can be configured to unmerge cells within a specified range, to ignore any cell range specified and unmerge all merged cells within a whole worksheet, or ignore any cell range and worksheet specified and unmerge all merged cells within a whole workbook.

For the purposes of this article, we are going to use a simple and fictitious Excel file. It has already been uploaded into a data step. You will want to replace this file with one of your own.

Before we get started, please create a Manipulate data action step so that you can add and use instructions.

The target file that we are going to use resembles the following image. As you can see, there are 12 sets of merged cells, each containing 3 cells.

Step-by-step guide

1. Create an Unmerge cells instruction.

2. Link the file with merged cells as the target file.

In this example, the file 'Merged Data' is linked.

3. Select the appropriate worksheet from the target file.

4. Enter the cell range with the merged cells. Select the option, "Within the specified range" under "Specify where to unmerge cells".

5. Alternatively, enter one cell as the address (e.g. A1) and specify where to unmerge cells with the following options:

Within the selected worksheet: this option unmerges all the cells in the worksheet selected above
Within the selected workbook: this option unmerges all the cells in the excel file selected.

6. Save and run the step.

In this example, the cell address is entered as "A1" and the option "Within the selected worksheet" is selected.

Once this step completes successfully, all 12 sets of merged cells have been unmerged: