How to Merge Excel Files (Without Using VBA) - 4 Easy Ways

[@rpatel8978]

I absolutely had to take few min to type a thank you comment here. This video saved me hours worth of good old copy and paste. Have thousand or so downloaded restaurant vendor receipts that I was trying to consolidate to analyze cost increases. This video is awesome....short & simple, but could you slow your speed just a bit. I watched it four times before executing successfully. No big deal, four times time well worth spent. Thank you and keep making!

[@Iano51]

Best and most comprehensive review of how to do this so thank you. A bit fast but it's a video so I can just pause.

[@ExcelU]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KateAFury]

You should add on the "Power Query from Workbook"-part that you can actually combine worksheets with different number of columns (as long as the coloumn names for the data you want to combine together are the same), by adding the worksheet with the most/all the coloumns first, and then the worksheets with the fewer coloumns. But your video really helped, thank you so much!

[@Goldpoint3295]

Your explanations are so simple and easy to understand

[@ExcelU]

Thank you :)

[@gldnkey7]

So appreciate this. Very simple, easy and optional. We don't have to search for other possible options as you include them all in. So thank you!

[@ExcelU]

Thank you, glad it was useful!!

[@supersql8406]

With clear cut explanation like this; and straight to the point with differents possibilities what we want the end result to be... nothing else to do but to "subscribe". and Thanks!

[@ExcelU]

Thank you so much ... and welcome :)

[@patriciapetri4792]

Thank you. I love the way you explain. you made it so simple and step by step!!.

[@ExcelU]

Thank you for your kind note :)

[@maryl1993]

This is what I really need. Thank you so much! Take care and God bless!

[@ExcelU]

Glad to hear it!

[@George-lp3qb]

Underrated Channel, Thanks

[@ExcelU]

Thanks for your compliment George!

[@sofeaathirah2741]

THANKS SIR ITS WORKED ON ME! 😊

[@ursulabrady5024]

Thank you, we pull data for ad hoc reports constantly and this is a timesaver.

[@liakat26]

Your explanations are so simple and easy .thanks sir

[@ExcelU]

Thank you :)

[@PaulEBrownbill]

Excellent again. thanks Paul

[@AdilZaman-yf1ky]

Really appreciate this brother. you saved many hours for me.

[@ExcelU]

Glad I could help

[@surajsoni9095]

Thanks Mate, I was looking for that solution no 4

[@ExcelU]

No problem 👍

[@stefifigueira598]

Thank you very much. U helped me to prepare my report easily 😊

[@SINGH-pq7st]

Very nice and well explained

[@brianbaheramouzegarletsbui6533]

Great work. All is crystal! As advertised! Thank you.

[@ExcelU]

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[@manishshhete1094]

thanks it helped. so easy.

[@darienwashington510]

Thank You. Life Saver

[@deedeewatkins9478]

This is very helpful. Is there a way to use the Power Query where it copies the formals found in the workbooks as well? It's only copying the values.

[@realebogapetlele6908]

thank you sooooo much, i was able to avoid mistakes and confusion...

[@ExcelU]

You are very welcome ... glad it helped!

[@iakovospapaioannou7202]

Best video on this subject :) thanks!

[@ExcelU]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ankitbishnoi4067]

Save a lot of time great job 👍

[@minetoobin9762]

from folder isn't an option for power query on mac. Choose data source and excel workbook etc/ no "folder" option.

[@noscream6]

Thanks for the video. For the 1st step. How can I use PQ if I have more than 100 files. Is it posible? They do not have the same structure

[@brandthelmholdt4362]

This is great! I have created a new table that links multiple files but now I want to add data to the table but when I hit the Refresh Data button it overwrites the data I have entered. How do I stop it from doing that?

[@venessamuller9536]

How to create a reference to the same cell range on multiple worksheets? Not everything in the spreadsheet, but only certain cells data into one. I need to create a list from hundreds of quotes sent to clients. I only need to pull their info and quote number to one list in excel in order to keep track of the quotes sent out. No one bothered to keep track before I started the job and I would like to implement this for myself

[@ramanamurthy5008]

I have only MS office 2013 version. Can you help me ,to merge multiple workbooks data into one workbook when format of all the workbooks is the same.

[@snipsnapshow]

Super helpful

[@ddarbela]

Excellent video great instruction saved awe loads of time.

[@ExcelU]

Great to hear!

[@jelespuru]

Great video. Thank you!

[@OnnYari]

i love it. thanks for your sharing

[@khairnarashvini9728]

In last method if references data changes then destination data not change? I want to combine many spreadsheets from different different folders but if data changes in the folder spreadsheet it should auto update in combined spreadsheets. Is it possible?please help me its too urgent..

[@samuelsen3656]

Very nice. Thank you for the video.

[@ExcelU]

Thank you :)

[@laibaahmad2361]

really appreciateeee thisss thankyouu

[@cadubidu]

Genius. Love'ya

[@kellystclair1]

THANK YOU!!!! Amazing!

[@jaquelinemaritz9810]

Why do others make it so complicated. Thank you for this tutorial!!!!

[@ZohraNur]

Love it! Clear and concise. Thank you.

[@ExcelU]

Thank you :)

[@aira170]

Very useful and easy to understand

[@ExcelU]

Excellent … thanks!

[@suhaskurse]

Thank you very much Sir

[@khadijakh8130]

Thank u so much ❤

[@ExcelU]

Always welcome

[@fenniemotsi6890]

Hi, I tried the power query workbook and everything was fine but the file was not accurate. The date was just missed placed. Is they a way, I can do it differently. Thank you !

[@OlafuyiAlliBalogun]

Thank you!!!

[@ExcelU]

Welcome!

[@HaiderKhan-xc8xp]

While using power query from folder, how to make the first two rows of each sheet disappear.

[@TransformChantel]

Thank you. Is there a video on how to merge instead of appending?

[@ExcelU]

I have several videos that show how to use power query to merge, this one is perhaps the most detailed: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3i8qo1uh7yZgMU Hope it helps! Thanks Jeff

[@Rg-ph8mf]

how to merge the different excel files in one excel but in different columns instead of raw?

[@stevendont3928]

Question: How do I get multiple worksheets on a single workbook and am able to sift through them via a dropdown list where the information for that specific worksheet appears? This video was very informative, but I have yet to find a way to accomplish merging multiple worksheets on a single worksheet on any given workbook. Thanks

[@ExcelU]

Interesting idea for a future video! Questions: I think I understand that you have one sheet (eg, the Admin sheet) with a drop down that provides a list of data source choices. And then you want to select a single data source name from the drop down and have the values from the selected data source appear on the Admin sheet. If so, is all of the data combined into a single Table? (So that the data source is identified in one of the data columns, and we just need a formula to return all of the rows from the table where the drop down selection matches the data source column) Or, is data stored in separate worksheets throughout the workbook? (So that the formula will need to use the sheet name from the drop down and then retrieve the data from the selected sheet). Let me know, it sounds interesting :)

[@wayneedmondson1065]

Great! Thanks Jeff!!

[@ExcelU]

Thanks Wayne!

[@patanirfan6146]

Thank you

[@riajulhaque]

Thanks for the useful tutorial. Can i store the merged file in the same data folder in MS teams/ Sharepoint?

[@pallabihazarika6101]

What if the worksheets ars having different data fields and not synchronised the same manner

[@rainbarde8657]

i tried it. thank you. however the images attached to the excel file didnt move. why?

[@prashantsingh1892]

Okay tell me one thing…if i have highlighted few column in the first sheet and when i want to combine two sheets then how to get the same format after combining??!

[@sivareddy3745]

It is good Brow.

[@lubogeorgiev6922]

Tanks a lot :)

[@ExcelU]

You're welcome!

[@nerlynboc156]

excellent

[@ExcelU]

Thanks!

[@AustinBrook5]

Is it possible to use power query to consolidate all the tabs into one workbook while keeping all of the tabs separate? I have all of my files into one folder, but would like to bring all of their sheets into one workbook but in separate tabs still.

[@maryprajutha2657]

ok every thing worked but in the of power query from workbook when i load only one workbook is loading nothing else is showing it says null what should i do?????????

[@MrShaggy789]

How do you consolidate multiple worksheets with different row amounts. I am trying to merge eight worksheets together but each worksheet has a different number of rows. (worksheet 1 has 612 rows, worksheet 2 has 571 rows, worksheet 3 has 377 rows etc...). As each worksheet corresponds to the same item, I wish to have all the data from all the worksheets merge by row 1, row 2, row 3 etc... Having them merged in a stacked formation as you have shown wont produce the result I'm trying to achieve. Any guidance for this would be great. Thanks.

[@abararahmed9402]

THNX

[@ulrichknop9281]

Is it possible to link excel from another computer? For example computer 1 is where you input the data and computer 2 is where the output is?

[@Danielm316]

I appreciate you but it was too fast for me new to these perhaps you . I just want to combine three workbooks containing multiple sheets into one workbook how which method should I ? Thank you

[@saravanannataraju7243]

How to import group of excel file data which password protected , while importing power query getting cannot import password protected workbook error

[@NguyenVanThau]

My excel 2010 14.0 not found the Get Data Button

[@subhank42]

usefull video

[@Pureyog]

If I want to merge 3 file and row are 5 millions in total, how to do it

[@LEALYNAVILA-b3h]

can I refresh the merge files if ever I made an update in raw file?

[@ExcelU]

Yes, to do so use the Data > Refresh All button in Excel :)

[@suvendubiswas3978]

I am not getting the 'get data' button

[@utsavmaidankar]

Hi, Can you please make a video to combine multiple workbook into one workbook. Note: Each workbook contain multiple worksheet

[@ExcelU]

Hi @utsavmaidankar I have created a new video to answer this question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWnNeqqvn5Z0j9k I hope it helps :) Thanks Jeff

[@goonie79]

Are there instructions for the online version of this?

[@AlphaRules24]

It says 73 errors detected! What happens to these errors? Are you not included in the new file?

[@ashil8905]

Get data from folder is missing.

[@piyako3586]

How do we combine worksheets with different set of columns and different data say for example property quarterly annual median all have 5 columns and some have 10 column

[@rodneysibanda6522]

is there a video if we have to do this on a recurring basis?

[@konli]

OK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rizwanwaheed3073]

what if data is more then 1 million rows

[@ExcelU]

Power query will process more than a million rows, however excel can’t hold more than a million rows on a given sheet. So, depending on what you are working on, you could aggregate the results in power query by using the Group By command to send a summary to excel (instead of all rows).

[@feloniousmonk321]

Too fast. I'm a learner. Slow down. It's also very confusing because you haven't properly explained whether each workbook needs to be open before this can work.

[@joukenienhuis6888]

You are right that he goes too fast, assuming you know the menus of Excel. He does show before the first step that he has multiple copies open of Excel or as it is called multiple workbooks and only one copy of Excel. On the View ribbon you see an area that is called windows. There is one option to select that has a pulldown option and is called Other Windows. If you select that, like he did, you see the open workbooks in the pulldown.

[@francesdobbins2964]

He speaks too quickly. He's confusing me.​@@joukenienhuis6888

[@Whosaidsneedfirst]

excel stoner

[@RachelleMcCall]

You are going entirely too fast. I had to stop and start this video a hundred times. So not user-friendly

[@VONALEXANDRIA]

This is too fast! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@ExcelU]

You can slow down the playback speed in KZbin controls

[@hanrealistic]

The last one... Instead of adding them as row, can we do that as columns.. Imagine a table with 4 columns pulling data from one sheet, now I'd like to add another column on to that from another sheet.

[@vanipolishetty2667]

thank you, it helps a lot...