Comments on: How to merge multiple Excel files into one

Merging multiple Excel workbooks into one file could be a cumbersome and long process. So, which is the best way to handle the problem: copy the sheet tabs, run VBA code or use a special tool? Continue reading →

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  1. hello. is it possible to merge multiple excel files into 1 excel file but with multiple sheet?

    1. Hello!
      If I understand your task correctly, our Ablebits Data - Copy Sheets - Selected Sheets to One Workbook may help you solve it in a few clicks. It is available as a part of our UltimaIt is available as a part of our Ultimate Suite for Excel that you can install in a trial mode and check how it works for free.te Suite for Excel that you can install in a trial mode and check how it works for free.

  2. This is a great script! Works perfectly for me. . . . However, I need the new Tab names to be the File name that I merged. How can that be achieved?

    1. Hello!
      Unfortunately, this option is not available. In addition, changing the name of a worksheet can destroy formulas that referenced old worksheet names.

      1. thanks! that worked well for me. is it possible to just copy the first tab in each workbook?

  3. Hi,

    How do I merge / append multiple excel files into one single sheet - Eg. 5 files, which needs to be merged all together in one sheet, not a one excel file per sheet but all in one?

    thanks in advance

    /T

    1. Hello!
      To combine multiple files into one sheet, you can use Ablebits Data - Copy Sheets - Data from selected sheets to one sheet.
      It is available as a part of our Ultimate Suite for Excel that you can install in a trial mode and check how it works for free.

  4. Hi,
    How do I merge multiple sheets into one sheet using column name as the column order (example A, AN , B) does not match for all the sheets? Thank you for your kind help.
    Warmest Regards.

    1. Hello Victor!
      There are several ways to merge multiple tables or sheets. You can find out more about them on our blog following this link.

      However, there is a ready-made solution for your task in Ultimate Suite for Excel. Please have a closer look at the Merge Two Tables and Combine Sheets tools.

      You can install Ultimate Suite in a trial mode and test the tools for 30 days for free: https://www.ablebits.com/files/get.php?addin=xl-suite&f=free-trial
      I hope this information will be helpful for you.

  5. Hi, is it possible to add each sheet name into the consolidated Sheet?

    1. Hello Bindu,

      The current version of Combine Sheets has no option to insert the tables’ names in the resulting table. Our developers will check out this suggestion and try to implement it in one of the future versions, but I cannot give you the exact timing yet.

      However, there is a workaround I may recommend you. Add an additional column to each of the tables you are to combine (let’s call it Sheet_Name, for example). Note! This column should be named the same in each sheet.
      Then enter the following formula in this column to get the sheet’s name there:

      =MID(CELL("filename",A1),SEARCH("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,255)

      This column will be added to the resulting table too and you’ll define the original data location by that.

  6. I want to combine data of different excel files into one file,kindly advise me

  7. Hi,
    Multiple sheets can be easily merge into one by a tool called as Power Query, its a separate tool needs to be download from Excel.
    Power query lets you to combine multiple sheets into one and helps you to compile the data.
    There is also a tool called as Power Pivot, which helps to apply Pivot on multiple sheets together.

    1. Hey that is an interesting idea - could you elaborate?

  8. The VBA Macro does not merge the data into one sheet. It only brings over sheets from other workbooks.

    1. Hi Dave,

      Exactly :) This whole article is about merging multiple Excel files into one, i.e. copying sheets from multiple workbooks into one workbook.

      If you are looking to merge data from multiple sheets into one sheet, you can try this VBA code or our Copy Sheets tool.

      1. Hi Svetlana,
        My requirement is quite similar to Dave's. So i went to the link provided by you above, But even that VBA code does not consolidate the data into one sheet, but only creates different sheets in the master sheet. Can you please help me?

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