How to merge multiple sheets with same headers in

Excel?
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For example, you have some data with the same headers in different sheets as below
screenshots shown, and now your job is to merge these sheets into one sheet. Instead of
copying and pasting them one by one, this tutorial introduces the better ways for you to
handle this job.

Merge sheets with same headers by VBA

Consolidate excel sheets with same headers by Consolidate function

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To combinne multiples sheets or workbooks into one sheet or workbook may be edious in Excel, but
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Merge sheets with same headers by VBA

If you just want to merge the sheets with same headers without any calculations, you can
apply the VBA code to solve it.

1. Activate the workbook you want to merge the sheets, press Alt + F11 keys to open
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and then paste below VBA code to the new Module window.

VBA: Merge sheets with same headers

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 1 Sub Combine()

2 Dim i As Integer

3 Dim xTCount As Variant

4 Dim xWs As Worksheet

5 On Error Resume Next

6 LInput:

7 xTCount = Application.InputBox( "The number of title rows" , "" , "1" )

8 If TypeName(xTCount) = "Boolean" Then Exit Sub

9 If Not IsNumeric(xTCount) Then

10 MsgBox "Only can enter number" , , "Kutools for Excel"

11 GoTo LInput

12 End If

13 Set xWs = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Add(Sheets(1))

14 xWs.Name = "Combined"

15 Worksheets(2).Range( "A1" ).EntireRow.Copy Destination:=xWs.Range( "A1" )

16 For i = 2 To Worksheets.Count

17 Worksheets(i).Range( "A1" ).CurrentRegion.Offset( CInt (xTCount), 0).Copy

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Destination:=xWs.Cells(xWs.UsedRange.Cells(xWs.UsedRange.Count).Row + 1, 1)
19
Next
20
End Sub
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3. Press F5 key to run the VBA, and a dialog pops out for you to enter the number of the
title rows. See screenshot:

4. Click OK. And all the sheets in the active

workbook are merged in a new sheet called
“Combined”.

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Tip:

(1.) Your data must start from A1, if not, the code will not take effect.
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(2.) Your data must have the same structure.

(3.) This code only can combine all worksheets of the active workbook, if you want to
merge worksheets from multiple workbooks, this code will not work.

Consolidate excel sheets with same headers by Consolidate function

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Supposing you have some data with same column and row headers as below screenshot
shown, and you want to merge excel sheets with same headers and then do some
calculations, you can apply the Consolidate function in Excel.

>
1. Open all the workbooks you
want to merge sheets from, and
place the cursor at a blank cell
where you want to locate the
merging data, then click Data >
Consolidate. See screenshot:

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2. Then in the Consolidate window, do as below operation:

1) Select the calculation you want form Function list;

2) Click to select the range you want to merge.

3) Click Add button to add the range into All reference list. To repeat 2) step and 3) steps to
add all ranges needed to merged into this list.

4) Check Top row and Left column under Use labels in section.

5) If you want to link the merged data to source data, check Create links to source data .

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1) Select the calculation you want form Function list;

2) Click to select the range you want to merge.

3) Click Add button to add the range into All reference list. To repeat 2) step and 3) steps to
add all ranges needed to merged into this list.

4) Check Top row and Left column under Use labels in section.

5) If you want to link the merged data to source data, check Create links to source data .

3. Click OK. Now all the data range with same headers are merged into one and sum up by
headers.

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 Merge or consolidate excel sheets with same headers by Kutools for Excel
If in some cases, you want to merge data with same headers only, and in other cases, you
want to merge data and consolidate them, are there any tricks can solve both these tasks?
Here I introduce Kutools for Excel’s powerful Combine function for you.

Merge excel sheets with same headers

Consolidate multiple sheets with same headers

Merge excel sheets with same headers

1. Click Enterprise > Combine to enable the Combine wizard, and then check Combine
multiple worksheets from workbooks into one worksheet. See screenshots:

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2. Click Next> > to go to Combine Worksheets - Step 2 of 3 wizard, and do as below:

1) Click Add > File/Folder to add the workbooks you may merge sheets from to the
Workbook list;
2) Check the workbook name you want to merge the sheets, you can choose multiple
workbooks;
3) Check the worksheets you want to combine together;
4) Click to select the range you want to combine, if the ranges are placed in the
same location of each sheet, just need to select one range from a sheet then click Same
range.
3. Click Next>> to the Combine Worksheet – Step 3 of 3 wizard, and type 1 into the textbox
of Title row number, if there are no title in your range, type 0 into it.

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4. Click Finish, and a dialog pops out to remind you save this scenario, if you want to save
it, click Yes, or No.

Now the sheets are merge with same row headers

in a new workbook.

Consolidate multiple sheets with same headers

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1. Click Enterprise > Combine to display the Combine wizard, and check Consolidate and
calculate values across multiple workbooks into one worksheet. See screenshot:

2. Click Next> > to go to the Combine Worksheets - Step 2 of 3 wizard, and do as below:

1) Click Add > File/Folder to add the workbooks you may merge sheets from to the
Workbook list;
2) Check the workbook name you want to merge the sheets, you can choose multiple
workbooks;
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3) Check the worksheets you want to combine together;
4) Click to select the range you want to combine, if the ranges are placed in the
same location of each sheet, just need to select one range from a sheet then click Same
range.
3. Go on clicking Next>>, and select the function you want to apply in the merged range,
and check the labels for your merged range. See screenshot:

4. Click Finish, and a dialog pops out to ask you to save the scenario, click Yes to save, or
click No to not save it.

Then the ranges are consolidated in a new workbook.

The advantage of Kutools for

Excel’s Combine function is that
you can merge multiple sheets
across opened workbooks or
unopened workbooks into one
worksheet or one workbook.

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1) Select the calculation you want form Function list;

2) Click to select the range you want to merge.

3) Click Add button to add the range into All reference list. To repeat 2) step and 3) steps to
add all ranges needed to merged into this list.

4) Check Top row and Left column under Use labels in section.

5) If you want to link the merged data to source data, check Create links to source data.

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