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Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Jerri Ledford. Writer, Editor, Fact Checker. Jerri L. Ledford has been writing, editing, and fact-checking tech stories since Twitter LinkedIn. Updated on May 10, Tweet Share Email. What to Know Using the concatenate formula in Microsoft Excel, you can combine two or more columns of data into one without losing any data. Please notice that we add a space before the word " completed" to separate the concatenated text strings.
Naturally, you can add a text string in the beginning or in the middle of your Concatenate formula as well:. A space " " is added in between the combined values, so that the result displays as "Project 1" rather than "Project1". To 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.
And since is a really big number and in real-life tasks someone will hardly ever need to combine that many strings, the difference boils down to the comfort and ease of use. So, simply stick to the concatenation technique that you feel more comfortable with.
In your worksheets, you may often need to join values in a way that includes commas, spaces, various punctuation marks or other characters such as a hyphen or slash. To do this, simply include the character you want in your concatenation formula. Remember to enclose that character in quotation marks, as demonstrated in the following examples.
The following screenshot demonstrates how the results may look like:. Most often, you would separate the concatenated text strings with punctuation marks and spaces, as shown in the previous example.
In some cases, however, may need to separate the values with a line break, or carriage return. A common example is merging mailing addresses from data in separate columns. A problem is that you cannot simply type a line break in the formula like a usual character, and therefore a special CHAR function is needed to supply the corresponding ASCII code to the concatenation formula:.
The merged values are separated with a comma ", " , space " " and a line break CHAR 10 :. Though, an easier way to include printable characters in the concatenation formula is to simply type them in double quotes as we did in the previous example. In order to concatenate two or more columns in Excel, you just enter a usual concatenation formula in the first cell, and then copy it down to other cells by dragging the fill handle the small square that appears in the lower right hand corner of the selected cell.
For example, to concatenate two columns column A and B separating the values with a space, you enter the following formula in cell C2, and then copy it down to other cells. When you are dragging the fill handle to copy the formula, the mouse pointer changes to a cross, as shown in the screenshot below:. Please note that Microsoft Excel determines how far to copy cells after the fill handle double click based on the cells referred to by your formula.
If there happen to be empty cells in your table, say cell A6 and B6 were blank in this example, the formula would be copied up to row 5 only. In this case, you would need to drag the fill handle down manually to concatenate the entire columns. Smart Home. Social Media. More Button Icon Circle with three vertical dots. It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close.
Melanie Weir. You can combine two columns in Excel using several formulas and tools available in the software. If the columns that you want to combine are empty, you can use Excel's merge function. If you try to use the merge function on two columns that have data in them, you'll get an error message stating that all of the data except what's in the upper-left cell will be deleted. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Melanie Weir is a freelance author for Insider, mainly focusing on the Tech Reference section, but occasionally contributing to Lifestyle and Entertainment topics as well.
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