Concatenate Excel
Gertrud Inabinet
I'm no Excel whiz, but I need to be able to concatenate the contents of cells in 9 columns into one, for each row in a 1000 row spreadsheet, with comma-delimited output. I used to be able to do this quite easily up until the most recent Excel update.
Now, the concatenate function uses Excel's new "SPILL" function to paste the result into adjoining empty cells next to the one I am placing my formula in. Isn't the reason for Concatenate to join the selected cells text into one cell? Anyway - I have not found a way that I can bring the output back into just one cell. I need to be able to copy these outputs into another spreadsheet, and while highlighting a cell in the spill output shows the blue outline for the range, copying the first cell only copies the first cells contents.
14. Add the powerful TEXTJOIN function to concatenate these names. Use a comma and space as the delimiter (first argument) and set the second argument to TRUE to ignore the empty strings. Finish an array formula by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER.
Is there a way to concatenate and keep the currency formula at the same time. I have to list a dollar range from $25- $10,000 in $50 increments. I've tried to copy the numbers down Excel in 2 columns then concatentate, but it looses the "$" symbol and the ",". Any suggestions on how to make a dollar range easier than actual writing each row.
In this article, you will learn various ways to concatenate text strings, numbers and dates in Excel using the CONCATENATE function and "&" operator. We will also discuss formulas to combine individual cells, columns and ranges.
When you concatenate cells in Excel, you combine only the contents of those cells. In other words, concatenation in Excel is the process of joining two or more values together. This method is often used to combine a few pieces of text that reside in different cells (technically, these are called text strings or simply strings) or insert a formula-calculated value in the middle of some text.
The following screenshot demonstrates the difference between these two methods:Merging cells in Excel is the subject of a separate article, and in this tutorial, we'll discuss the two main ways to concatenate strings in Excel - by using the CONCATENATE function and the concatenation operator (&).
Excel CONCATENATE functionThe CONCATENATE function in Excel is used to join different pieces of text together or combine values from several cells into one cell.
In Microsoft Excel, the ampersand sign (&) is another way to concatenate cells. This method comes in very handy in many scenarios since typing an ampersand is much faster than typing the word "concatenate" :)
The above formula informs the user that a certain project is completed, as in row 2 in the screenshot below. Please notice that we add a space before the word " completed" to separate the concatenated text strings. A space (" ") is also inserted between the combined values, so that the result displays as "Project 1" rather than "Project1".
="See " & A2 & " " & B2Join text string and another formulaTo make the result returned by some formula more understandable for your users, you can concatenate it with a text string that explains what the value actually is.
=TRANSPOSE(A1:A10)
- In the formula bar, press F9 to replace the formula with calculated values. As a result, you will have an array of values to be concatenated.
- Delete the curly braces surrounding the array.
- Type =CONCATENATE( before the first value, then type the closing parenthesis after the last value, and press Enter.
=CONCAT(A1:A10)
Method 4. Use the Merge Cells add-inA quick and formula-free way to concatenate any range in Excel is to use the Merge Cells add-in with the "Merge all areas in selection" option turned off, as demonstrated in Combining values of several cells into one cell.
Excel "&" operator vs. CONCATENATE functionMany users wonder which is a more efficient way to join strings in Excel - CONCATENATE function or "&" operator.
And since 255 is a really big number and you will hardly ever need to combine that many strings in real work, the difference boils down to comfort and ease of use. Some users find CONCATENATE formulas easier to read, I personally prefer using the "&" method. So, simply stick with the technique you feel more comfortable with.
Opposite of CONCATENATE in Excel (splitting cells)The opposite of concatenate in Excel is splitting the contents of one cell into multiple cells. This can be done in a few different ways:
The result may look similar to this:To check how the Merge Cells add-in will cope with your data sets, you are welcome to download a fully functional trial version of our Ultimate Suite for Excel below.
That's how to concatenate in Excel. I thank you for reading and hope to see you on our blog next week!
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I have individual charts for each showing trending for database space. I am trying to concatenate the chart title the first cell in the column and the last cell which is a percentage. Everyday a new last cell gets added to the columns. I have followed your page on concatenate to be able to join the cells but it always converts the percentage to a decimal and I cant figure out if there is a way to have it join them based on the new next final percentage cell. Is this possible? Thanks ahead of time!!!!!!
Example chart tile would be B1&" - "&B3 resulting in: UDB01 - 67.20%
I'm working on a concatenate formula for a spreadsheet that contains several columns of data that are used to create a filename. I've finessed everything except one final step and I'm hitting a wall with that one.
I'm fully accepting that this may be asking more of excel than it is able to give and, honestly, it's not a big deal, I've just gotten in very deep making this pretty so it's more a matter of personal success than necessity.
Hi, I have a emp id and address in 2 cells the condition here i have different address for the same Emp id and i need to concatenate those details to the emp id in a single cell. Where i tried text join but still it comes up with error most of the time. Any other ways to fix this issue.
I have two cells - cell 1 value i s abc while cell2 value is def (but e is formatted with strike out). how can I concatenate two cells by keeping format of Cell2 i.e. letter e with strike out formatting
I'm trying to concatenate two cells, if either cell has an #N/A in it I need the "#N/A" to appear as such in the concatenation, not the entire value of the field to return "#N/A."
Ex:
654321 #N/A
#N/A 123456
EX:- There is cell Value contains if statement and changes with the conditions provided, It is Showing value "L5"(it changes with conditions) in cell "e17", now I use concatenate formula "=concatenate("=",e17)" and I will get value "=L5" but I want that this "=L5" behave as a formula and show me the Value of the cell "L5".
The goal: read multiple excel files and concatenate the data from these files. Some of these xls files have an extra-column information (e.g. most xls have columns A, B and C, some have columns A, B, C and D).
This can be adressed with multiple xls reader nodes and several concatenate nodes.
But since I have a large number of xls files, I would like to use the xls reader in a loop but neither the simple loop end nor the "add column" one are able to concatenate the readed xls due to inconsistency in the number of columns. So how to do it ?
I am new with the platform, so I would kindy ask anybody to post the solution in .knar file in order to understand it faster. I need to concatenate over 600 excel files with the same column structure. Any response will be much appreciated.!
Hector.-
The CONCATENATE function in DAX accepts only two arguments, whereas the Excel CONCATENATE function accepts up to 255 arguments. If you need to concatenate multiple columns, you can create a series of calculations or use the concatenation operator (&) to join all of them in a simpler expression.
The sample formula returns the customer's full name as listed in a phone book. Note how a nested function is used as the second argument. This is one way to concatenate multiple strings when you have more than two values that you want to use as arguments.
The following example demonstrates how to concatenate values in columns that have different data types. If the value that you are concatenating is numeric, the value will be implicitly converted to text. If both values are numeric, both values will be cast to text and concatenated as if they were strings.
But the performance is what matters, and depending upon the number of arguments being concatenated, and the length of each argument, the CONCATENATE function would appear to outperform the concatenation operator by a factor of between 4 and 6. Admittedly, this example is extreme, with 255 arguments being concatenated, 10,000 times. I do not recommend using an argument string length greater than 32, or you may run out of memory/crash Excel.
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