MergeCells class

Office 2013 and later

Defines the MergeCells Class. When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is x:mergeCells.

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

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[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

mergeCells (Merge Cells)

This collection expresses all the merged cells in the sheet.

[Example:

This example shows that three ranges are merged. The formatting and content for the merged range is always stored in the top left cell.

<mergeCells>
  <mergeCell ref="C2:F2"/>
  <mergeCell ref="B19:C20"/>
  <mergeCell ref="E19:G19"/>
</mergeCells>

end example]

Parent Elements

worksheet (§18.3.1.99)

Child Elements

Subclause

mergeCell (Merged Cell)

§18.3.1.54

Attributes

Description

count (Count)

A count of merged cell collections.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the W3C XML Schema unsignedInt datatype.

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_MergeCells) is located in §A.2. end note]

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

The following code example merges two adjacent cells in an existing spreadsheet. After you run the example, take a look at the file and notice the merged cells.

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Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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