AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Idiocy? Please mark Yes/No as to whether a Reply answers your question. Overall, IMO custom Cell Styles would be the better option. However, specific formatting cannot have a shortcut assigned to it. Tools> Customize Keyboard in the main menu. To paraphrase Excel guru & long-time MVP John McGimpsey, "Merged cells are spawn of the devil!".Ĭustom keyboard shortcuts can be created now that the machinery has been restored. Conventional wisdom dictates that merged cells should be avoided.
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If you're not familiar with how to do that see theĬustomize how Excel opens workbooks and sheets Create the Cell Styles in the custom workbook. If you want to have the Styles available to all workbooks you'd first need to create a custom workbook template.See the Excel Help article:Įverything you mentioned can be included in a custom Cell Style with the one exception/substitute noted below. What you might do well to investigate is the use of custom Cell Styles. [And once I have that, I can create keyboard shortcuts for Format->Cells->Number->Decimal I have a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Format->Cells->Number panel, but what I'd like is a keyboard shortcut for Format->Cells->Number->Decimal places:->1. So:ġ) Are there keyboard commands for Merge&Center and Wrap Text?Ģ) If not, is there a way to create a combined shortcut for these actions in Excel? Unfortunately, I've not been able to find keyboard command for any of these. If there were keyboardĬommands for each of these, I could easily create a keyboard shortcut (using Keyboard Maestro) than combined all of these into a single keyboard command. I'd prefer to do this with a single keyboard shortcut. Currently, I do this using the ribbon, but this takes multiple clicks: Home, Merge&Center, Wrap Text. I often have to do merge + center+wrap operations on a single cell. There are two operations I often do to cells in Excel, and I'd like to create single keyboard shortcuts for each of these: This does the trick, so all that’s left to do is press ctrl-b to bold the text.I'm using Excel 16.20 in Office 365, for Mac.
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. It needs to be centered vertically, so we need to click the Middle Align button in the Alignment group. Actually, there are two conditions that can cause the Merge and Center tool to be unavailable. What’s wrong? Well, the text is centered – horizontally. Hold on, we selected Merge and Center, but the text isn’t centered. Select Rotate Up, and we should get the following: Now click the Orientation button, also in the Alignment group. Those cells are merged, but we can’t see all the text. Select cells A2 – A14 and then click the Merge and Center button. The text needs to be in the bottom row because we’re going to rotate the text anticlockwise, as we’ll see. Now, we can type the text “Months of the year – 2010″ in row A14. The instant you click on any of the options as displayed in the previous image, the selected cells will merge and the text will get center automatically. Click on the downward facing arrow on this tab, which will show you more options for merge and center for cells. Suppose we move our table to the right by one cell to make room for a row title. Merge and Center tab on the top tools ribbon.
Now you can use Alt + 5 keys to merge and unmerge the cells. Right click on Merge & Center > Add to Quick Access Tool bar.
We can do a similar thing vertically for row headings. Re: Keyboard shortcut for Merge and Center. Cells are merged and title centered! Press Cctrl-b to bold the text and there we have a nice looking title. Select cells A1 to D1 and then click Home > Alignment > Merge and Center. We can do that with just one button: the Merge and Center button. It would help if we could merge all the cells above the table headings for the title to occupy and also center the title. When we type the title “Sales By Month For 2010″, we can see that it spills out into other cells.
This is where Excel’s merge and center command comes in.įor example, look at the following spreadsheet that contains data about sales by month for the year 2010. Often in your worksheets, you’ll need a title or heading to span multiple cells and you’ll want Excel to display the title or heading in the center.