When to use a check box. Use one or more check boxes when you want to: Enable users to make a true/false or yes/no choice. Display true/false or yes/no information that comes from a database, Web service, or other data source.
You can combine or merge text from two or more cells into one cell. For example, if you have one cell in your worksheet with a personâs first name and one cell with their last name, you can combine the first and last names in a new cell. Click the cell where you want to put the combined text. Type =(. Click the cell that contains the first text you want to combine, such as a personâs first name. Type &â â& (a space enclosed in quotation marks). Click the next cell with the text that you want to combine, such as the personâs last name.
1 Open Calc or Excel. 2  Highlight the merged cell you want to split. 3  A merged cell will expand into multiple columns or rows. 4  Click the Merge cells button in the formatting bar. 5  Below is an example of what this button looks like in each of the versions of Excel and Calc that support this option.erge two cells using a formula. In Excel, you can merge two cells using a formula. Using the ampersand (&) in a formula acts to combine two cells or a cell and other text together. In this example, the formula =A1&B1 combines the values in cells A1 and B1 into cell C1.