The Consolidate Workbooks menu provides you with powerful options to combine data from multiple workbooks within a selected folder into one. This is especially useful for aggregating reports, merging data from different files, or creating master files for analysis.
Features
- Consolidate All Sheets: Combines all sheets from each workbook in the selected folder into the active workbook, creating new sheets for each imported sheet.
- Consolidate Visible Sheets: Imports only the visible sheets from each workbook, ignoring any hidden sheets.
- Consolidate Active Sheets: Merges only the currently active sheet from each workbook.
How to Use
- Click the desired option under the Consolidate Workbooks menu:
- Consolidate All Sheets
- Consolidate Visible Sheets
- Consolidate Active Sheets
- A folder selection dialog box will appear.
- Choose the folder where your Excel workbooks are stored that you want to consolidate and click OK.
- The tool will process the files:
- All sheets (for the first option), visible sheets (for the second option), or active sheets (for the third option) from each workbook are imported into the current workbook.
- If any sheet names conflict, suffixes like (2), (3) etc. are automatically added to avoid duplicates.
- Once complete, a confirmation message will pop up.
Benefits
- Automates merging data from multiple files, saving significant manual effort.
- Handles duplicate sheet names seamlessly, preventing overwrite issues.
- Selective import options (all, visible, or active) provide flexibility depending on user needs.
Use Case Scenarios
- Consolidate monthly reports into a master report by importing sheets from different department workbooks.
- Merge financial data from regional branches into a central workbook for analysis.
- Create comprehensive dashboards by pulling data from different sources in bulk.
With these consolidation tools, working with multiple Excel files becomes a streamlined process, enhancing productivity and accuracy in data handling.