How to merge coplanar surfaces?

 From:  chippwalters
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Here I've raised the walls of this solid box using the Extrude command. Now I have two sections: 1 and 2. How can a merge these so that the wall shows only 1 section? I've tried <tab> merge in the command line, but it doesn't seem to do the trick.

Thanks for any help. :)

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