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How to find and replace contents in merged cells in Excel?

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To find and replace a word with another word is usually used in Excel, but have you ever tried to find and replace contents in merged cells in Excel? In this tutorial, you may find the good solutions.

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Find and replace merged cells with Find and Replace

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arrow blue right bubble Find and replace merged cells with Find and Replace

With Find and Replace function, you can handle this job.

1. Select the data range you want to replace the merged cells, and press Ctrl + F keys simultaneously to enable Find and Replace dialog, then click Replace tab. See screenshot:

go to Find and Replace and click replace

2. Then click Format beside Find what textbox, and then in the Find Format dialog, click Alignment tab, and check Merge cells option only. See screenshot:

click format button and check Merge cells option

3. Click OK to go back to Find and Replace dialog, and enter the text you want to replace with in the Replace with textbox. See screenshot:

enter the text to replace with

4. Click Replace All, a dialog pops out to remind you the number of replaced cells, just click OK.

a dialog pops out to remind the number of replaced cells

Now all the contents in merged cells have been replace with new texts.

all the contents in merged cells have been replace with new texts

arrow blue right bubble Find and replace merged cells with Kutools for Excel

If you want to replace merge cells contents more easily, you can try to use Kutools for Excelā€™s Select Merged Cells utility.

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1. Select the data range including merged cells, and click Kutools > Select > Select Merged Cells. See screenshot:

click Select Merged Cells feature of kutools

2. Then all the merged cells in the selection are selected, and a Kutools for Excel dialog pops out to remind you the number of selected merged cells, click OK to close it.

all merged cells are selected

3. Then enter the text you want to replace with, and press Ctrl + Enter keys to replace the text in merged cells with the new text.

enter the text and press Ctrl + Enter keys to replace them

 

 

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