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

You might be surprised how much time is lost flipping between Excel workbooks trying to find information - especially if you have a lot to sort through. Learning how to merge Excel files will make finding information easier, faster, and more user-friendly (especially if you’re sharing workbooks).
While you can use VBA to combine files, not everyone is familiar with the programming language or creating Microsoft Excel macros. In this video learn four easy ways to merge files without having to use VBA.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Move Copy Sheet
02:19 - Paste Values
04:25 - Power Query From Folder
06:01 - Power Query From Workbook

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  • @AdilZaman-yf1ky
    @AdilZaman-yf1ky3 күн бұрын

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

  • @rpatel8978
    @rpatel89783 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @gldnkey7
    @gldnkey710 ай бұрын

    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

    @ExcelU

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you, glad it was useful!!

  • @Iano51
    @Iano513 ай бұрын

    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

    @ExcelU

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @PaulEBrownbill
    @PaulEBrownbill3 ай бұрын

    Excellent again. thanks Paul

  • @Goldpoint3295
    @Goldpoint3295 Жыл бұрын

    Your explanations are so simple and easy to understand

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @stefifigueira598
    @stefifigueira598 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @killmenothing
    @killmenothing3 ай бұрын

    Made my work easier! Thanks!

  • @darienwashington510
    @darienwashington510 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You. Life Saver

  • @supersql8406
    @supersql84068 ай бұрын

    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

    @ExcelU

    8 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much ... and welcome :)

  • @patriciapetri4792
    @patriciapetri479211 ай бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your kind note :)

  • @ankitbishnoi4067
    @ankitbishnoi4067 Жыл бұрын

    Save a lot of time great job 👍

  • @kellystclair1
    @kellystclair110 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU!!!! Amazing!

  • @jelespuru
    @jelespuru3 ай бұрын

    Great video. Thank you!

  • @sofeaathirah2741
    @sofeaathirah27414 ай бұрын

    THANKS SIR ITS WORKED ON ME! 😊

  • @maryl1993
    @maryl19939 ай бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    8 ай бұрын

    Glad to hear it!

  • @OnnYari
    @OnnYari2 ай бұрын

    i love it. thanks for your sharing

  • @ursulabrady5024
    @ursulabrady50247 ай бұрын

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

  • @manishshhete1094
    @manishshhete109411 ай бұрын

    thanks it helped. so easy.

  • @vanipolishetty2667
    @vanipolishetty26679 ай бұрын

    thank you, it helps a lot...

  • @KateAFury
    @KateAFury5 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @INDERJEETSINGH-pq7st
    @INDERJEETSINGH-pq7st3 ай бұрын

    Very nice and well explained

  • @liakat26
    @liakat26 Жыл бұрын

    Your explanations are so simple and easy .thanks sir

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @laibaahmad2361
    @laibaahmad23612 ай бұрын

    really appreciateeee thisss thankyouu

  • @abararahmed9402
    @abararahmed94023 ай бұрын

    THNX

  • @suhaskurse
    @suhaskurse3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much Sir

  • @George-lp3qb
    @George-lp3qb Жыл бұрын

    Underrated Channel, Thanks

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your compliment George!

  • @rahulr6236
    @rahulr62366 ай бұрын

    Super helpful

  • @wayneedmondson1065
    @wayneedmondson1065 Жыл бұрын

    Great! Thanks Jeff!!

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Wayne!

  • @samuelsen3656
    @samuelsen3656 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice. Thank you for the video.

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @patanirfan6146
    @patanirfan61469 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @iakovospapaioannou7202
    @iakovospapaioannou72028 ай бұрын

    Best video on this subject :) thanks!

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    8 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @aira170
    @aira170 Жыл бұрын

    Very useful and easy to understand

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Excellent … thanks!

  • @ZohraNur
    @ZohraNur Жыл бұрын

    Love it! Clear and concise. Thank you.

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @cadubidu
    @cadubidu Жыл бұрын

    Genius. Love'ya

  • @ddarbela
    @ddarbela8 ай бұрын

    Excellent video great instruction saved awe loads of time.

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    7 ай бұрын

    Great to hear!

  • @realebogapetlele6908
    @realebogapetlele690811 ай бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    10 ай бұрын

    You are very welcome ... glad it helped!

  • @user-ty1eg4vq9q
    @user-ty1eg4vq9q4 ай бұрын

    Thank you!!!

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    4 ай бұрын

    Welcome!

  • @riajulhaque
    @riajulhaque11 ай бұрын

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

  • @khadijakh8130
    @khadijakh81305 ай бұрын

    Thank u so much ❤

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    4 ай бұрын

    Always welcome

  • @lubogeorgiev6922
    @lubogeorgiev69227 ай бұрын

    Tanks a lot :)

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    7 ай бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @subhank42
    @subhank42 Жыл бұрын

    usefull video

  • @deedeewatkins9478
    @deedeewatkins94784 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @sivareddy3745
    @sivareddy37459 ай бұрын

    It is good Brow.

  • @noscream6
    @noscream65 ай бұрын

    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

  • @minetoobin9762
    @minetoobin97627 күн бұрын

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

  • @AustinBrook5
    @AustinBrook5 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @brandthelmholdt4362
    @brandthelmholdt43624 ай бұрын

    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?

  • @nerlynboc156
    @nerlynboc15611 ай бұрын

    excellent

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @ulrichknop9281
    @ulrichknop9281 Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @TransformChantel
    @TransformChantel Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    I have several videos that show how to use power query to merge, this one is perhaps the most detailed: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3uN27xxgrrMesY.html Hope it helps! Thanks Jeff

  • @fenniemotsi6890
    @fenniemotsi68903 ай бұрын

    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 !

  • @goonie79
    @goonie79 Жыл бұрын

    Are there instructions for the online version of this?

  • @Danielm316
    @Danielm31623 күн бұрын

    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

  • @HaiderKhan-xc8xp
    @HaiderKhan-xc8xp4 ай бұрын

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

  • @Rg-ph8mf
    @Rg-ph8mf2 ай бұрын

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

  • @MrShaggy789
    @MrShaggy7894 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @prashantsingh1892
    @prashantsingh1892 Жыл бұрын

    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??!

  • @maryprajutha2657
    @maryprajutha265710 ай бұрын

    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?????????

  • @saravanannataraju7243
    @saravanannataraju724311 ай бұрын

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

  • @stevendont3928
    @stevendont39285 ай бұрын

    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

    @ExcelU

    5 ай бұрын

    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 :)

  • @AlphaRules24
    @AlphaRules24 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Pureyog
    @Pureyog3 ай бұрын

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

  • @utsavmaidankar
    @utsavmaidankar6 ай бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    3 ай бұрын

    Hi @utsavmaidankar I have created a new video to answer this question: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWyeq9mympSnido.html I hope it helps :) Thanks Jeff

  • @rodneysibanda6522
    @rodneysibanda6522 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-jc2gr4wg6d
    @user-jc2gr4wg6d11 ай бұрын

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

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @suvendubiswas3978
    @suvendubiswas397815 күн бұрын

    I am not getting the 'get data' button

  • @piyako3586
    @piyako3586 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @konli
    @konli7 ай бұрын

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

  • @rizwanwaheed3073
    @rizwanwaheed3073 Жыл бұрын

    what if data is more then 1 million rows

  • @ExcelU

    @ExcelU

    Жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @Whosaidsneedfirst
    @Whosaidsneedfirst Жыл бұрын

    excel stoner

  • @feloniousmonk321
    @feloniousmonk321 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @joukenienhuis6888

    11 ай бұрын

    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

    @francesdobbins2964

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @VONALEXANDRIA
    @VONALEXANDRIA5 күн бұрын

    This is too fast! 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @hanrealistic
    @hanrealistic8 ай бұрын

    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.