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Excel Consolidate Consolidate by position: Used when data in all the worksheets is arranged in exactly the same order and location. Consolidate by category: Used when the worksheets have the same row and column labels, but the rows and columns aren't arranged in the same order on all the worksheets.

Consolidating data meaning. Consolidate means that to combine a number of things into a single unit. Consolidating of data means that the process of combining the number of data organized into different sheets into one worksheet or cell.

The 'Consolidate' feature in Excel can be useful when you want to summarize the same data from multiple sources. Consolidating data in Excel allows combining data from multiple rows and ranges using functions such as sum, average, count, min, and max.

A 3-D reference is useful and convenient way to reference several worksheets that follow the same pattern and cells on each worksheet contain the same type of data, such as when you consolidate budget data from different departments in your organization.

Consolidate is an inbuilt function in Excel used to consolidate data from different workbooks opened simultaneously. This function is present in the “Data” tab. It allows us to select multiple data from other workbooks and consolidate them in a final workbook.

Click Data>Consolidate (in the Data Tools group). In the Function box, click the summary function that you want Excel to use to consolidate the data. The default function is SUM. Select your data.

Step 1: First, create a new sheet and insert column A data. In this example, we are selecting Sheet 4. Step 2: Next, select cell B2 in sheet 4 and click on Data → Consolidate Function under Data Tools. Step 3: Select SUM and insert the cell range as a reference from all 3 sheets and select OK.