Problem

Starting in ExcelWriter 6.8.1, the ability to unmerge cells in a worksheet as introduced with the Cell.Unmerge method. The Cell.IsMerged has also been added to determine whether or not a given cell is merged.

This post covers some examples of unmerging an individual cell or an area of cells.

Solution

Unmerging a single cell


Cell cell = wb.Worksheets[0].Cells[0,0];
if(cell.IsMerged) cell.Unmerge();

Unmerging an Area of cells

Although the Merge method is on the Area object, the Unmerge method is only on the Cell object. This is because each cell knows whether it is part of a merged cell, but a given area can be defined to include both merged and unmerged cells.

There are two ways to unmerge an area of cells:

1. If you know exactly where the merged cells are, you can unmerge any one cell and the entire merged area will be unmerged.
2. Or, loop through all the cells in an area to find merged cells and unmerge them.

C# example:

Area a = wb.Worksheets[0].CreateArea("A1:C4");
for(int i=0; i<a.RowCount-1; i++)
{
for(int j=0;j<a.ColumnCount-1;j++)
Cell cell = wb.Worksheets[0].Cells[i,j];
if(cell.IsMerged) { cell.Unmerge(); }
}
}


For more information about merging cells, refer to the Area.MergeCells() documentation.

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