Filtering with merged cells - Excel Tips and Tricks

Discover how to filter merged cells.

Sorting merged cells in Excel can be tricky as Excel doesn't directly support sorting merged cells. When attempting to sort merged cells, Excel often throws an error message, making it impossible to arrange data in the desired order. However, it's feasible to sort data alongside merged cells by unmerging them first, sorting the data, and then re-merging them if needed. Extracting data from merged cells in Excel involves either manually copying the data from each cell or using specialized formulas to retrieve the information. While sorting and filtering merged cells can be cumbersome, filtering data alongside merged cells is feasible by unmerging cells, applying filters, and then re-merging cells as necessary, ensuring smooth data manipulation despite Excel's limitations with merged cells.

After the video you will be able to answer the following questions.

How to sort merged cells in Excel?
Why can't I sort merged cells in Excel?
Is it possible to sort with merged cells?
How to extract data from merged cells in Excel?
Filtering with merged cells.

Here are the steps outlined in my video.

Save Formatting
1) Select the Channel column
2) Ctrl + C
3) Paste it somewhere else

Filter Formatting
1) Select the Channel column
2) Alignment ~ Unmerge cells
3) Ctrl + G
4) Special
5) Blanks
6) OK
7) =B5
8) Ctrl + Enter
9) Select save Channel column
10) Clipboard ~ Format Painter

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