This post will guide you how to unmerge cells and fill with duplicate values in Excel 2013/2016. How do I unmerge multiple cells and copy the content in each previously merged cell in Excel. How to unmerge cells and fill down duplicate values with VBA Macro in Excel.
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Unmerge Cells and Fill with Duplicate Values
Assuming that you have a list of data in range A1:C4, and some cells are merged in your table. And you want to unmerge cells in this range and fill each cell with the original value. How to achieve it. You need to unmerge cells in selected range firstly, then select all blank cells with Go To Special feature, next you need to use a formula to fill down value in each blank cell. Just do the following steps:
#1 select the range of cells which contain merged cells.
#2 go to HOME tab, click Merge & Center command under Alignment group, and select Unmerge Cells from the drop down menu list.
#3 all merged cells in the selected range have been unmerged. And keep to select the range.
#4 go to HOME tab, click Find & Select command under Editing group, and select Go To Special menu from the drop down menu list. And the Go To Special dialog will open.
#5 select Blanks radio button in the Select section, and click OK button.
#6 all blank cells have been selected. And then enter =, then press Up arrow in your keyboard.
#7 press Ctrl + Enter keys on your keyboard, and all blank cells have been filled with the original merged value.
Unmerge Cells and Fill with Duplicate Values using VBA Macro
You can also use an Excel VBA Macro to unmerge multiple cells in a selected range and then fill with duplicate values in each cell. Just do the following steps:
#1 open your excel workbook and then click on “Visual Basic” command under DEVELOPER Tab, or just press “ALT+F11” shortcut.
#2 then the “Visual Basic Editor” window will appear.
#3 click “Insert” ->”Module” to create a new module.
#4 paste the below VBA code into the code window. Then clicking “Save” button.
Sub UnmergeMulCells() Set myRange = Application.Selection Set myRange = Application.InputBox("Select one Range which contain merged Cells", "UnmergeMulCells", myRange.Address, Type:=8) For Each myCell In myRange If myCell.MergeCells Then With myCell.MergeArea .UnMerge .Formula = myCell.Formula End With End If Next End Sub
#5 back to the current worksheet, then run the above excel macro. Click Run button.
#6 Select one Range which contain merged Cells.
#7 Let’s see the last result:
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