How To Group Worksheets In Excel

Last Updated on August 19, 2022

Microsoft Excel is a favorite for offices and large companies because it is so diverse in what it can do. 

Have you ever had to work with multiple worksheets at the same time and found it to be a bit time-consuming?

Well if that’s the case, we have a trick that you can use that you might not know about! 

Have you ever heard of grouping worksheets? This feature lets you work on multiple worksheets at the same time, and this can save you quite a few hours of work. 

So read on and follow this method on how to group worksheets!

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How To Group Selected Worksheets In Excel

Grouping worksheets in excel is quite a straightforward process. Just follow these simple steps and you’ll be set up in no time:

Step

1

First Open Your excel Workbook

First, open your excel workbook.

Step

2

Now You Want To Hold Down CTRL

Now, you want to hold down CTRL and click all the sheet tabs you want to group.

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3

Now Release The CTRL Button

Now, release the CTRL button.

Once you’ve finished editing all the worksheets simultaneously, you can ungroup them by right clicking on one of the worksheets and then press Ungroup Sheets.

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How To Group All Worksheet In Excel

You can also group all the worksheets in a workbook, which is even easier to do than selected worksheets. Follow these two steps to do so:

Step

1

Right-Click Any Of The Existing Worksheets

Right-click any of the existing worksheets.

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Then Click  Select All Sheets

Then click “Select All Sheets”.

Something you might want to keep in mind when you do this though is that as soon as you start browsing through the worksheets, this will automatically ungroup them.

To browse through them without them being ungrouped, you have to select some of them rather than grouping them all.

To ungroup all the worksheets if you don’t browse through them first, it is the same process as selected worksheets.

How To Tell If The Worksheets Are Grouped

It’s really easy to know when certain worksheets are grouped because of their visual tells. 

The tab where the worksheets are is usually gray by default. Any grouped worksheets will be white. 

The other sign is if you look at the top of excel, where the green bar is, you will see that the word Group is added to the name of the workbook. As soon as you ungroup them, it disappears from the name. 

Benefits of Grouping Worksheets

There are multiple benefits to grouping worksheets. Because grouping worksheets allows you to enter the same data, make the same changes and write all the same formulas across all the worksheets simultaneously, it saves you a lot of time and hassle and is a lot faster than editing each worksheet individually.

Some other benefits include:

• Being able to set up the same header, footer, and page layout. 

• Simultaneous printing of multiple worksheets. 

• Copy, delete, or move a group of worksheets.

• Correct multiple typos across all worksheets in one go. 

• Edit or add any required data across each worksheet. 

• Create or edit any formulas in any cells at the same time. 

• Delete any unneeded data simultaneously.

• Change multiple cells across all worksheets. 

There are lots of other benefits to grouping worksheets together, these are just some of the examples of a large list of things you can do! 

Conclusion

Grouping selected worksheets in excel is a massive game changer for those who work with excel a lot in their day-to-day lives. 

When you have multiple worksheets and workbooks to sort through and edit, it might seem like a daunting task when you don’t have the knowledge on how to sort them faster, but this trick will save you a lot of stress and time. 

Give grouping worksheets a try and see how much of a benefit it really is!