The Easiest Way to Combine Data from Multiple Cells
The Easiest Way to Combine Data from Multiple Cells @Brain Up
Combine text from two or more cells into one cell
Select the cell where you want to put the combined data.
Type = and select the first cell you want to combine.
Type & and use quotation marks with a space enclosed.
Select the next cell you want to combine and press enter. An example formula might be =A2&" "&B2.
How to Combine Text from Multiple Cells into One Cell in Excel
If you have a large worksheet in an Excel workbook in which you need to combine text from multiple cells, you can breathe a sigh of relief because you don’t have to retype all that text. You can easily concatenate the text.
Concatenate is simply a fancy way ot saying “to combine” or “to join together” and there is a special CONCATENATE function in Excel to do this. This function allows you to combine text from different cells into one cell. For example, we have a worksheet containing names and contact information. We want to combine the Last Name and First Name columns in each row into the Full Name column.
To begin, select the first cell that will contain the combined, or concatenated, text. Start typing the function into the cell, starting with an equals sign, as follows.
=CONCATENATE(
Now, we enter the arguments for the CONCATENATE function, which tell the function which cells to combine. We want to combine the first two columns, with the First Name (column B) first and then the Last Name (column A). So, our two arguments for the function will be B2 and A2.
There are two ways you can enter the arguments. First, you can type the cell references, separated by commas, after the opening parenthesis and then add a closing parenthesis at the end:
=CONCATENATE(B2,A2)
You can also click on a cell to enter it into the CONCATENATE function. In our example, after typing the name of the function and the opening parenthesis, we click on the B2 cell, type a comma after B2 in the function, click on the A2 cell, and then type the closing parenthesis after A2 in the function.
Press Enter when you’re done adding the cell references to the function.
To add a space between the first and last names, we add a space as another argument to the function, in between the cell references. To do this, we type a space surrounded by double quotes. Make sure the three arguments are separated by commas.
=CONCATENATE(B2," ",A2)
To add a space between the first and last names, we add a space as another argument to the function, in between the cell references. To do this, we type a space surrounded by double quotes. Make sure the three arguments are separated by commas.
=CONCATENATE(B2," ",A2)
That’s better. Now, there is a space between the first and last names.
Method 2 - Ampersand
You can combine cell values without having to use a function at all.
You simply use the ampersand character &
Go to the cell where you want the combined text to appear and type an equals sign and select the first cell to combine:
Now type an ampersand and select the next cell:
Repeat this until all cells have been selected:
Hit enter when you are done (there is no need for parenthesis here):
Once again, there are no spaces between the text.
Add Spaces Between the Combined Text
We do it just like before in that we need to add spaces between the text using a space between two double quotation marks (you could also just add a space after the text in each cell that you want to combine).
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