How to Group Worksheets in Excel (Windows & Mac)

Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist.

Knowing how to group worksheets in Excel would allow you to do tasks on multiple worksheets quickly.

How does it work?

Simple. Once you group the worksheets, any changes you make on a single worksheet will reflect the same way on all the worksheets in the group at the exact same location.

That means, there’s no need for you to switch through different worksheets just to change a single typo, create standard tables, or even do the same calculations on the worksheets.

Kasper Langmann, Co-founder of Spreadsheeto

In this article, we’ll show you, step-by-step, how to group worksheets on Mac and Windows Excel. Of course, we’ll also teach you how to ungroup them. Let’s get started! 😊

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Before you start:

Throughout this guide, you need a data set to practice.

I’ve included one for you (for free).

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How to group worksheets in Excel

First off, let’s have a sample problem:

Suppose you own a store that sells 7 items across 3 branches. For each branch, you have a separate worksheet complete with the past year’s sales. 

Here are the data sets:

data set for group worksheets exercise

Now, you wanted to compute the total sales for each branch. The simplest way to do that is by using the ‘SUM’ function and adding all the values to the equation:

using the sum function to calculate the total profit of branch a

The computation only affected the current sheet you’re on. Grouping the worksheets would allow you to do the same computation at the same time.

Kasper Langmann, Co-founder of Spreadsheeto

To group worksheets in Excel, hold down ‘Ctrl’ (‘Command’ for Mac) and click the tabs you want to group.

using control to group worksheets

You’ll know when the worksheets are selected and grouped when the color of the tab turns from gray to white:

the color of worksheet tab changes from gray to white when grouped

Once the worksheets are grouped, you can now do the computation that would reflect on all the worksheets.

Let’s do the ‘SUM’ computation again and see how it affects all the worksheets:

sum computation on all worksheets

Group All Worksheets

If want to group all the worksheets, you can simply right-click on a single tab and choose ‘Select All Sheets’ from the options:

select all sheets option after right clicking the worksheet tab

How to ungroup worksheets

Ungrouping the worksheets is even simplier.

One way to do that is by clicking the next worksheet tab.

clicking the next worksheet tab to ungroup worksheets

If you don’t like to go to another worksheet just to ungroup them, you can also right-click on your current worksheet tab and choose ‘Ungroup Sheets’ from the option:

unsheet groups option after right clicking a worksheet tab

Ungroup Selected Worksheets

What if you need to ungroup selected worksheets only?

To do that, just click on the worksheet tab you want to ungroup while holding down ‘Ctrl’ (‘Command’ for Mac).

Take note, you can’t ungroup the worksheet tab you’re currently on.

click the worksheet tab while holding control to ungroup the selected worksheet

Wrapping things up…

Grouping worksheets save time. Gone are the days when you have to manually do the same exact thing on different worksheets on the same exact location.

If you’re having difficulty doing it, feel free to practice on the sample file we included. 😊

Kasper Langmann, Co-founder of Spreadsheeto