How to identify and select all merged cells in Excel?

Do you know how to find and select all merged cells in Excel? Here is the cool tricky ways to identify and select all merged cells in a selection or range in Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010 quickly.

Identify and select all merged cells with Find command

Identify all merged cells with VBA code

Select and count all merged cells with Kutools for Excel

Select and count all merged cells in worksheet:

Kutools for Excel’s Select Merged Cells feature can help you to find and select all merged cells in a selection or a worksheet and get the number of merged cells as well.

Identify and select all merged cells with Find command

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You can identify and select all merged cells in active worksheet by Find command with following steps:

1. Click the Home > Find & Select > Find to open the Find and Replace dialog box. You can also open the Find and Replace dialog box with pressing the Ctrl + F keys.

2. Click the Format button in the dialog box, (If you can't find out the Format button, please click the Options button to expand the dialog.) see screenshot:

3. In the popping up Find Format dialog box, only check the Merge Cells option in the Text control section under Alignment tab, and click OK.

4. Now you go back to the Find and Replace dialog box, click Find All button. All merged cells are listed at the bottom of this dialog box. Select all finding results with holding down the Shift key.

Now all merged cells in active sheet are selected when you select all finding results. See screenshot:

Tips: If you want to only identify, find, and select merged cells in a selection, you need to select the range first.

Identify all merged cells with VBA code

VBA 1: Identify and highlight all merged cells

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 Module Window.

Sub FindMergedcells()
'updateby Extendoffice 20160106
Dim x As Range
For Each x In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
If x.MergeCells Then
x.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
End If
Next
End Sub

3. Press the F5 key to run this macro. All merged cells in active worksheet are identified and highlighted, see screenshot:

VBA 2: Identify and list all merged cells

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 Module Window.

Sub ListMergedcells()
'updateby Extendoffice 20160106
Dim x As Range
Dim sMsg As String
sMsg = ""
For Each x In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
If x.MergeCells Then
If sMsg = "" Then
sMsg = "Merged cells:" & vbCr
End If
sMsg = sMsg & Replace(x.Address, "$", "") & vbCr
End If
Next
If sMsg = "" Then
sMsg = "No merged cells."
End If
MsgBox sMsg
End Sub

3. Press the F5 key to run this macro, all merged cells are listed in a popping up dialog box. See screenshot:

Select and count all merged cells with Kutools for Excel

Kutools for Excel's Select Merged Cells tool will help you identity, find and selected all merged cells in a selection with only one click.

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1. Select the data range that you want to select the merged cells.

2. Click Kutools > Select > Select Merged Cells, see screenshot:

3. And all the merged cells in the selection have been selected at once, and the number of the merged cells are counted as well, see screenshot:

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