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Combine text from two or more cells into one cell

How to Combine text from two or more cells in Excel

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Combine text from two or more cells

into one cell

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You can combine or merge text from two or more cells into one cell.

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One way to do this is to write a formula in a third column which uses the concatenation

operator, the ampersand (&).

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1. Click the cell where you want to put the combined text.

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2. Type =(

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3. Click the cell that contains the first text you want to combine, such as a person’s first name.

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4. Type &” “& (a space enclosed in quotation marks).

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5. Click the next cell with the text that you want to combine, such as a person’s last name.

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6. Type ) and then press ENTER. That’s all there is to it!

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To add a comma, type &”, “& (a comma followed by a space, both enclosed in quotation marks).

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To combine the text in more than two cells, continue selecting cells, and typing &” “& after each cell you select.

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The CONCATENATE function can also be used to join different pieces of text together.

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Excel 2016

CONCAT replaces the CONCATENATE function.

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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.

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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.

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.

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CONCAT vs TEXTJOIN Example

=CONCAT("The"," ","sun"," ","will"," ","come"," ","up"," ","tomorrow.") will return: The sun will come up tomorrow.

=TEXTJOIN(" ",TRUE, "The", "sun", "will", "come", "up", "tomorrow.") will return: The sun will come up tomorrow.

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