How to Merge Cells in Excel On top of making a sheet’s layout look clean, combining cells can also help group related data. That way, you don’t have to stretch cells to show more information.

Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets aren't just for tabulating data — they're also designed to make that data and its accompanying labels neat and orderly.

You can combine two columns in Excel using several formulas and tools available in the software. If the columns that you want to combine are empty, you can use Excel's merge function.