Merge may refer to any of the following:

  1. To merge is to take two or more groups of data and combine them into a single unified set. Generic merging (as with the MS-DOS copy command) takes one or more files and combines them into one file. More advanced merging commands and programs are capable of only merging data that is new or updated to a file.

  2. In Microsoft Excel a Merged cell is a cell with one more cell that is combined into one cell. When cells with multiple values are merged, the upper-left most cell will be the data of the merged cell.

  • How to merge or combine multiple files.
  • Microsoft DOS and Windows command line users can merge two or more files into one file using the copy command.
  • Linux / Unix users can merge two or more files into one file using the merge command or lines of files using the paste command.
  1. With revision control, merged is when two or more files that were combined into one final version.
  • How to merge cells in Excel and Calc.
  • How to combine cell values in Excel.
  • Overview of the Microsoft Office Ribbon.
  1. With businesses, merging is a description of two companies that combine to become one company.

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