How to unmerge cells and fill with duplicate values in Excel?

If you have a worksheet which contains numerous merged cells, and now you need to unmerge them and auto-fill down the original values from the merged cells as following screenshots shown. How could you quickly deal with this task?

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with Go To Special command

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with VBA code

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with one click

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with Go To Special command

With the Go To Special command, you can unmerge cells and fill down the values. But this method is somewhat troublesome, please do as following steps:

1. Select the columns that have merged cells.

2. Click Home > Merge & Center > Unmerge Cells. See screenshot:

3. And the merged cells have been unmerged and only the first cell will be filled with the original values. And then select the range again.

4. Then click Home > Find & Select > Go To Special. In the Go To Special dialog box, select Blanks option. See screenshot:

5. And then click OK, all of the blank cells in the range have been selected. Then input = and press Up arrow key on the keyboard. See screenshot:

6. Then press Ctrl + Enter keys, all of the blank cells have been filled with the original merged data. See screenshot:

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with VBA code

With the following VBA code, you can quickly unmerge the cells and fill down the values.

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Modulewindow.

Sub UnMergeSameCell()
'Upadateby Extendoffice
Dim Rng As Range, xCell As Range
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    If Rng.MergeCells Then
        With Rng.MergeArea
            .UnMerge
            .Formula = Rng.Formula
        End With
    End If
Next
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

3. Then press the F5 key to run this code, a dialog is displayed for selecting a range to work with, see screenshot:

4. Click OK, then the merged cells have been unmerged and auto-filled down the original merged values.

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with one click

With the Unmerge Cell utility of Kutools for Excel, you can unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with one click, this method is very simple and handy.

After installing Kutools for Excel, you can do as follows:

1. Select the columns that you want to unmerge and fill down the data.

2. Click Kutools > Merge & Split > Unmerge Cells & Fill Value, see screenshot:

3. And the merged cells have been unmerged and filled with the duplicate values at once. See screenshots:

Unmerge cells and fill with duplicate data with Kutools for Excel

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Merge adjacent rows with same data in Excel