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Workbook Merger

Combines many workbooks or sheets into one, stacking rows or adding each source as its own sheet.

Twelve monthly exports that need to become one table, or a folder of workbooks that needs to become one file. The difference matters: stacking aligns rows by header name rather than by position, so a file with its columns in a different order still lands in the right places.

🔒 Runs entirely in your browserexcelmergebatchspreadsheet

Drop the workbooks to combine

Drop them in the order you want them. Everything is read in this tab.

Reads .xlsx, .xlsm and .ods. Cell values, dates and text are carried over; formulas are copied as their last calculated value, and formatting, charts and images are not carried at all.

How to use it

  1. Drop the workbooks in order

    Order matters for stacking — it is the order the rows end up in.

  2. Choose sheets or a stacked table

    Sheets copies everything into one workbook unchanged. Stacking builds one table, matching columns by header name.

  3. Keep the source columns on

    A source file and sheet column is the only way to trace a row in the combined table back to where it came from.

  4. Read the missing-column warning

    It lists the headers that appear in some files and not others. That is usually a typo in one file, not genuinely missing data.

Common questions

What happens to formulas?

They come across as their last calculated value. A merged workbook has no relationship to the sheets a formula referred to, so keeping the formula would produce either a broken reference or a wrong number.

Is the formatting kept?

No — values, dates and text only. Colours, borders, charts and images are not carried, which is the trade for a merge that runs entirely in the browser.

The columns did not line up.

Stacking matches on the exact header text, so a trailing space or a different word breaks the match and the column appears twice. The warning lists the ones that only appear in some files.

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These accept what this tool produces, so the result can go straight in.