Feature request: How to merge cells in Smartsheet

Trish Dillon

merge data into cells like excel does in a user friendly way

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Sydneyc12

Same as excel.

k.thomas

Please add merge cell

oliviasimmons

I would love to have the feature to merge cells, and put bold lines under text boxes like as seen below.

Chelsea Richardson

I can't believe merging still isn't supported. This is critical!

Chelsea Richardson

Please add merge! One example use case is wanting to have header rows to segment sections of a sheet. Not being able to merge creates a number of issues, such as:

Long header titles either have to wrap, or the column has to be disproportionately stretched to be visible.
Conditional formatting rules inadvertently impact the blank cells in header rows (e.g., color cell when blank). This forces a workaround of putting invisible text in the blank cells to avoid misapplied rules.
Lack of ability to organize data that needs to span multiple columns or headers that need to cover multiple columns.

Smartsheet: If there is a reason that merge isn't on the roadmap, can you please explain? Otherwise, all of us users are sitting here not understanding why this seemingly basic request has been disregarded for years.

AKSC_HSE

Adding to the pile-on. Please add cell merge.

Thanks.

JeahUnit

I'm not usually one to jump on the bandwagon but I would also really appreciate the ability to merge cells,

Cheers

Adam Garcia-Villarreal

Hello,

It would be fantastic if Smartsheet would give us the option to Merge Cells in a sheet.

Vlad Tsapko

Cell merging is an absolute must. Hopefully, this simple function can be introduced soon

EJ554

If you combine all the requests across all the years for this it is quite a lot of requests. I'll add mine officially here but figured I'd speak up for the many people who won't see it that have already commented elsewhere.

mforbes

Would love the ability to merge cells -OR- Add a row for a heading to break up the spreadsheet.

jessikaserrano

Please add in the ability to merge cells

SW8335

Without merged cells or other options for visual and accessible headers to sections in Grid View, I am unable to use Smartsheet for any of the documents going out to our team. It appears the Smartsheet solution is to create multiple sheets for each of these sub-sections and combine them visually e.g. on a dashboard. Due to this increase of time/labor we will instead continue to use Excel.

RobSouthernGeorgia

Please make merge cells part of your current plan, it is needed

LB SmartSheet

Please please please PLEASE add a merge function!

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