to get the heading exactly how you want it. This is now a fixed heading.įrom there, you can format the color, text size, etc. But none of the columns or rows containing table data had to adjust. Now, as you can see above, the text for the spreadsheet heading runs the width of the table.
The following Gif will show you how to use the tool: This is where the Excel Merge & Center tool comes into play. Adjusting column width for the name of the spreadsheet throws everything off: The table, however, is already formatted so that the columns are the right width for the Column Headings. Notice how the text for the name of the spreadsheet runs from A1 to C1. The name of the spreadsheet has been added to the spreadsheet: Let’s take the following spreadsheet as an example. Without changing the Excel width or height of the individual cells in a column or row, you can merge all the cells together. This is perfect for text that runs over multiple cells. One such tool is the Merge & Center tool. Fortunately, Excel provides formatting options to make your spreadsheet accommodate text without compromising the number formatting. Sometimes adding text can create formatting issues. Whether it’s column headings, naming the worksheet itself, itemization or important notes, adding text to Excel is a vital component of making your Excel spreadsheets be professionally viable. But often times, you need text to accompany those numbers to make sense of what the numbers mean. This remains the primary reason people use Excel.
The spreadsheet software of Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers. Both protection and sharing have been discussed in other issues of ExcelTips, and both of them happen to disable Merge and Center. Second, you should check to see if the workbook is shared. You should check, first, to see if your worksheet is protected. If so, add it to your QAT and try it out.
The following article shows you how to use the Excel Merge & Center tool. Actually, there are two conditions that can cause the Merge and Center tool to be unavailable. open the Customize Quick Access Toolbar window and just scroll through the list of commands available (Note: some are only available thru customisation as they are not on the inbuilt menu) and see what each tool does and whether it may be useful to you.