How to Merge 2 or More Excel Files into 1 Excel File

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By Victor Ashiedu

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Do you have two or more Excel files you rather merge into one? This guide covers 8 steps to merge Excel files.

In this Itechguide, I will merge the files shown in this image into a single file. You can merge all the files into a new excel file or merge all of them into one of the existing file.

I may use Excel file and Excel workbook interchangeably. They both refer to the same thing.
how to merge Excel files

Follow the steps below to combine multiple Excel files into 1 file:

  1. If you want to merge all the existing files into a new Excel workbook, create the new Excel workbook and open it. However, if you want to merge all into one of the existing workbooks, open the workbook you want to merge all others into.
In this example, I will merge all other workbooks into the first worksheet in the list.
  1. Then, open all other Excel files. The quickest way to open all the workbooks is to select all of them and press the enter key on your keyboard. You may also right-click on the selected files and click Open.
how to merge Excel files
You have to open all the Excel files to be able to combine them into one.
  1. Once all the files are open, maximize the first one you want to merge.
how to merge Excel files
  1. Then, right-click the worksheet you want to merge and select Move or Copy.
how to merge Excel files
  1. On the Move or Copy pop-up, click the To book drop-down. All the Excel files open on your PC will be displayed in the drop-down.
how to merge Excel files
  1. Select the excel file you want to the merge other files into.
  1. Finally, to merge Excel files, check the Create a copy checkbox, select (move to end) and click OK.
Selecting (move to end), moves the excel worksheet you are merging to the end of the worksheet you are merging it into.
how to merge Excel files
Once you click OK, a copy of the worksheet will created in the destination Excel file. If you open the Excel file you merged the worksheet into, the worksheet you merged into it will be available on the workbook.
  1. Repeat steps 3-7 for all the files you want to merge. For each step, to move the new worksheet after the last worksheet, select (move to end).

When you finishing merging the files, they will all appear as worksheets in the workbook you merged all of them into.

I hope you were able to merge Excel files with the steps in this Itechguide. I also hope that you found the guide helpful!

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Victor Ashiedu

Victor is the founder of InfoPress Media, publishers of Ilifeguides and Itechguides. With 20+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, his expertise spans Windows, Linux, and DevOps. Explore his contributions on Itechguides.com for insightful how-to guides and product reviews.

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