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Comment: Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin

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Example
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csharp
csharp
titleC#

          //--- Get PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          bool preserveData = importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells;

          //--- Set PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells = false;
        
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vb.net
vb.net
titlevb.net

          '--- Get PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          Dim preserveData As Boolean = importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells

          '--- Set PreserveDataOnMergedCells
          importProps.PreserveDataOnMergedCells = False
        
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To see what this looks like, go to our online documentation:
To see what this looks like, go to our online documentation:

Given the following data set:

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Is being imported into the following cells:

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If PreserveDataOnMergedCells is equal to true, each value will be assigned to a cell or group of merged cells.

The result for the above example would be:

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If PreserveDataOnMergedCells is equal to false, ImportData will treat all cells as though they are unmerged. Any additional values that are imported into merged areas will be lost.

The result for the above example would be:

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Web only

Remarks

When PreserveDataOnMergedCells is set to true it will also affect column names when UseColumnNames is also set to true.