I'm trying out a new idea I have for sharing Excel tips: creating a short but very targeted PowerPoint presentation on Slide Share about how to do a specific task in Excel. Please let me know if you like this format or not.
Did you know that you can combine or merge text from two or more cells into one cell in a spreadsheet? There are, of course, multiple ways to accomplish this task. One way to do this is to write a formula in a third column which uses the concatenation operator, the ampersand (&).
The CONCATENATE function can also be used to join different pieces of text together. However, in Excel 2016 CONCAT replaces the CONCATENATE function. The CONCAT function combines the text from multiple ranges and/or strings, but it doesn't provide the delimiter or IgnoreEmpty arguments. Also new in Excel 2016 is the TEXTJOIN function combines the text from multiple ranges and/or strings, and includes a delimiter you specify between each text value that will be combined.
Please let me know in the comments below if you want to see more short presentations like this one! I also posted this as a short video on YouTube and on Facebook, would you prefer this as a video instead?
Did you know that you can combine or merge text from two or more cells into one cell in a spreadsheet? There are, of course, multiple ways to accomplish this task. One way to do this is to write a formula in a third column which uses the concatenation operator, the ampersand (&).
Please let me know in the comments below if you want to see more short presentations like this one! I also posted this as a short video on YouTube and on Facebook, would you prefer this as a video instead?
