{"id":35,"date":"2026-02-04T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:08:02","slug":"how-to-merge-cell-ranges-using-openpyxl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/how-to-merge-cell-ranges-using-openpyxl.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Merge Cell Ranges Using OpenPyXL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Method<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 14.0pt;\"><span lang=\"zh-CN\" style=\"font-family: \u5fae\u8f6f\u96c5\u9ed1;\">Use the `merge_cells` method of the worksheet object to merge cells<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: \u5fae\u8f6f\u96c5\u9ed1; font-size: 14.0pt;\"><span style=\"background: white;\">ws.merge_cells(range_string=None,start_row=None,start_column=None,end_row=None,end_column=None)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Sample Code<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#Merge Cell Ranges\n\n#Import load_workbook function\nfrom openpyxl import Workbook\n\n#Create a new workbook\nwb=Workbook()\n#Get the active worksheet\nws=wb.active\n\n#Merge a cell range\nws.merge_cells('C3:E4')\n#ws.merge_cells(start_row=3, start_column=3, \\\n#    end_row=4, end_column=5)\n\nwb.save('test.xlsx')\nwb.close()<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18.png\" alt=\"Merge Cell Ranges Using OpenPyXL\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18.png 787w, https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18-768x495.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenPyXL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-openpyxl-cell-range"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpyxl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}