Ever wondered how to go from a bunch of cells with text to one big combined text? Like this:
Well, there is a simple trick, shared by Grant with us in the What is the coolest Excel trick you learned in 2013? post.
Quick and easy way to combine bunch of text values
- Let say the cells you want to combine are in B2:B19.
- In a blank cell, where you want to concatenate all the values type
- =CONCATENATE(TRANSPOSE(B2:B19))
- Don’t press enter yet.
- Select the TRANSPOSE(B2:B19) portion and press F9. (related: debugging formulas using F9 key)
- This replaces the TRANSPOSE(B2:B19) with its result
- Now remove curly brackets { and }
- Enter
- Done!
See this demo to understand.
Bonus tricks
- If you cannot use F9 for any reason, use CTRL+=
- If you want to add a delimiter (like space or comma) after each item in the text, you can use TRANSPOSE(B2:B19 & ” “) or TRANSPOSE(B2:B19 & “,”)
- If the range you want to concatenate is across columns (Say A1:K1), then you can skip the TRANSPOSE formula and write =CONCATENATE(A1:k1), Select A1:K1 and press F9, remove {}s.
Keep in mind
Since F9 replaces formulas with values, if your original data changes, then you must re-write the CONCATENATE(TRANSPOSE(…)) again.
If you would rather keep the formulas alive, then use CONCAT() UDF. It takes a range and a delimiter and spits out combined text with ease.
More on dealing with text using Excel
Here are a few more tips on working with text values in Excel.
- Finding patterns in text
- Extracting a portion of text
- Converting text to sentence case
- Separating user names & domains from email addresses
- Sorting text values using formulas
- Initials from names
- More text processing tips, quick tips.
Thank you Grant
Thanks Grant for sharing this trick with all of us. It is a time saver for sure.
If you like this tip, say thanks to Grant. Also, in the comments, tell us how you combine text values and what other tricks you use.
181 Responses
Great !
Awesome 🙂 Thanks for sharing
Neat trick, thanks for sharing.
It is very helpful for me.. thanks for sharing this tip
God bless you
Fantastic! This will save me a huge head ache in the future. Thank you.
In my excel version (2010, polish), is giving “\” instead of commas….
My excel gives me only “.” not “;”.
(excel 2010 german)
The use of ; and , are used predominantly in English only
You will need to customise to suit your language
To find out what your locale is
In a cell Type =A1:E1
Don’t press Enter but Press F9
Excel will display something like ={1,1,1,1,1}
Take a note of the separator character which is , in English
In a cell Type =A1:A5
Don’t press Enter but Press F9
Excel will display something like ={1;1;1;1;1}
Take a note of the separator character which is ; in English
Note in above the ,’s seperate Columns and the ;’s separate Rows
Use whatever Excel shows you in your language
Strangest Excel behaviour:
In Excel 2003 and 2010, combining text from cells in a row works perfectly with the trick described by Chandoo. When combining text from cells in a column, skip the whole “transpose” thing. Just type =CONCATENATE(A1:K1), press F9 and remove the {} brackets, that’s it.
Seems to be just the other way around in Excel 2013…
That doesn’t quite work because just using CONCATENATE results in
=CONCATENATE({“oh”;”combining”;”a”;”bunch”;”of”;”texts”;”into”;”one”;”big”;”texts”;”is”;”so”;”painful”;”well”;”not”;”any”;”more”})
The ;’s will not work.. using TRANSPOSE with CONCATENATE makes them ,’s instead, which does work. (See Hui’s post regarding ,’s and ;’s as separators (,’s for columns, ;’s for rows)
After the TRANSPOSE command, with the curly brackets still in the result, you can do find – replace and replace any / ; . into a ,
Thereafter finalize the Concatenate formula and your text should be fine.
Yeah !!
That’s it!
Dave you’re great!
Gee, it was so simple :):)
Thx
And that’s right what Hui… said
When you click F9 having formula with column array (eg. =A1:A20) you’ll get “;” between values
When you hit F9 having values in row (eg. =A1:E1) you’ll get diffrent character (“\” or “,”) between values
So for me it’s just about to use the trick
with CONCATENATE and TRANSPOSE formulas, when I want to combine values from column,
and to use CONCATENATE just with an array (then hit F9 on it), when values are in row.
whoops 🙂
Was wrong 😛
CONCATENATE with TRANSPOSE when they’re in a row
and CONCATENATE without TRANSPOSE when they’re in a column
Hi Michal,
While doing concatenate..I am getting “\” instead of ;.Could you please let me know how you resolved your issue?
Just add or remove TRANSPOSE according to what you tried first. It happened to me; it seems that depending on your regional settings it can work in the opposite way.
Wonderful technique.. Welldone !
Nice trick! I always use the following trick though:
1. In C2, enter =C1 & B2
2. Copy down to C19 (C19 now has the info you want)
3. Copy C19 and paste as values and delete the rest
I think I still prefer this, since you have more flexibility when, for instance, the words don’t have end with a space character. In that case you can just type =C1 & B2 & ” “
Also Very Good- and allows you to leave the formula in place for automatic updates in case the data changes ! Thanks for the tip!!
nice trice….
Then just do this: =CONCATENATE(TRANSPOSE(B2:B19&” “)
Then you’ll have the spaces with the above formula as well.
Thanks! I learned TWO new things today! Super!
This is great!
For some reason it is vital to leave out the last round bracket in the TRANSPOSE function before presing F9 button, otherwise it won’t work.
cool
Very cool trick!
Thanks for sharing that.
I have been using a similar approach for doing the same thing.
Let’s see which one is of more convenient to you.
Using the example the above example:
1) In a blank cell, Input =B2:B19 (do not press enter)
2) Press F9
3) Remove the “=”, “{“, “}” manually
4) Press Ctrl H (Find and Replace)
5) Find ” and replace with nothing
6) Find ; and replace with your delimiter
7) Enter
8) Done
An excellent tip MF, thanks.
Dave
Great Tip Grant. Thanks for sharing Chandoo… I will publish it in my blog http://www.exceltoxl.com too.
I’d just copy the data to the formula bar using the office clipboard…
1. click arrow in bottom right corner of clipboard section of ribbon.
2. select B2:B19 and choose Copy
3. select new cell and click the formula bar
4. click the icon with the copied data from the clipboard
5. Choose Replace… Find: [Ctrl+j] Replace [ ] OK.
(The last step replaces line breaks with spaces or required delimiter.)
Awesome Tricks.
This does not work in Excel 2010 as described in the posting or the responses.
@Tom… I have tested it with 2010 too, it is working alright. Can you tell me which locale you are using? I am using English (EN-US).
It is not accepting if number of rows increased. It gives me error “More arguments have been specified for this function than are allowed in the current file format”. Please give me solution for this.
I think that the problem may be that there is a character limit for the cell in which you have placed the formula. (I was doing this off of some customer email data in a table form for which I want to do a simple cut and past from the data.
My fix will be to simply parse my data (I have 500 rows) to allow working within the cell content limits. Still saves a ton of work. Chandoo rocks!
@Chandoo This is a great tip! I didn’t know this. Thx.
@JLeno I use your method as well when I need to add a comma or space.
Cool indeed Grant!.
I like this
Thanx Chandoo
Thanks Chandoo. Very nice tip. How did you discover this?
This is an excellent article – Thank you Chandoo. I often need to do this in my work but have an alternative method for relatively short text concatenations using the JUSTIFY feature from within the EDITING ribbon. It is found by clicking the down arrow to the right of FILL and selecting JUSTIFY, at the end of the presented list.
To use this feature, select all the text plus the column immediately to the right eg: if text was A1:A10, you would be selecting A1:B10. Now select the arrow to the right of the FILL command in the EDITING panel. Choose JUSTIFY. The text has now been concatenated, with spaces but probably into several rows. To place the text into only one cell, either widen the right hand column to the width you believe the text would fill and repeat the process. Alternatively, you could select a larger number of columns and then select JUSTIFY. This would place as much text as it could in the first cell, with the remainder in the cells below.
The JUSTIFY command has the advantage of being fully ‘UNDO’able and can be coded in VBA to create a tool which might insert a new column to the right, justify selected text and then clean up the screen.
this is so interesting!!!! thanks for sharing!
finally I have a sense of “justify”.
That is awesome. Never knew about ‘justify’. Glad I ran across this!
great…..
thanx for sharing
COPY all the list [B2:B19] in EXCEL
PASTE it in NOTEPAD
SELECT all and copy from Notepad
Paste in Excel Cell {edit}/ [F2] PASTE.
” Try This “
Ganesh Karra says:
January 17, 2014 at 3:45 am
COPY all the list [B2:B19] in EXCEL
PASTE it in NOTEPAD
SELECT all and copy from Notepad
Paste in Excel Cell {edit}/ [F2] PASTE.
” Try This ”
Hi Ganesh,
Can you be more specific in your reply? Thanks!
x-cellent
Awesome! thank you for sharing! you’ve just saved me bunch of time!
Very nice !
I love it
beautiful tips, thanks grant & chandoo
Thank you. You just made my week.
Please watch short vid http://bit.ly/ConcTran
This uses the original tip but comes up with a formula using cell references. Note that this uses & as well as concatenate so that there is one argument in Concatenate for each cell reference and a separator. But the same method applies by using b,c5 instead of b&c5 but now there will be a separate entry for each ref and for each separator.
Regards
Brian
I love this trick/post very much! Coincidently, I recently run into a similar situation, but with repetitive groups all one column. I need to concatenate every 8 rows into one cell, and there are about 2000 rows, and only one column of text and number. How can I use this trick for every 8 rows? Without entering this formula 2000/8= 250 times? Thank you!
Everybody also could try “phonetic” to complete this like “=phonetic(B2:B19)”
This trick works well if we are selecting the values (to be concatenated) from one particular column (say A1:A30). All the values are present in column A and this is where the transpose function takes it’s eminence. But if we want to do the same thing in a row (say row 1, data from A1:K1), this trick throws an error because the seperator would be ; for traspose function.
We can overcome it by just removing the transpose function and make do with concatenate function only by following the same steps.
i.e.; =concatenate(A1:K1), now select A1:K1, press F9 and replace curly braces with ( ). There you go.. Enjoy..
Hi,
Thanks for this trick for concatenating in columns. How to add any delimiter then like “/” or comma?
I have a sheet of 30+ columns. Using Transpose first for adding delimiter creates problem with ; error. and with your way, i can’t add any delimiter. Please help
Great! Thanks buddy 🙂
Thank you so much Grant. This really helped me with my school work
That’s one way to do it, I suppose.
Really, the issue is that the =CONCATENATE function that comes with Excel is pretty useless. For just 3 fields, you can just as easily type =A1&A2&A3 as
=CONCATENATE(A1, A2, A3)
Years ago, I wrote the below to address this issue.
The format is =CONCAT(A1:A3)
Function concat(avec As Variant, Optional CHAR2INS As String, Optional trim As Boolean) As String
‘========================================================
‘ this improves on the =concatenate function
‘ Arguments are:
‘ AVEC – this is the vector to be concatenated
‘ CHAR2INS – is the charachter to insert between cell items. If this is
‘ Left blank, Nothing Is inserted
‘ TRIM – whether to trim excess CHAR2INS
‘========================================================
Dim i, j, counter, Total As Integer
Dim numrows As Integer
Dim numcols As Integer
Dim Temp As String
Temp = “”
numrows = avec.Rows.Count
numcols = avec.Columns.Count
Total = numrows * numcols
For j = 1 To numrows
For i = 1 To numcols
‘ skip blanks
If avec(j, i) = “” Then
GoTo 99
End If
‘ don’t put a character after the last item
counter = counter + 1
If counter = Total Then
Temp = Temp & avec(j, i)
Else
Temp = Temp & avec(j, i) & CHAR2INS
End If
99 Next i
Next j
‘ this line takes out unprintable characters
concat = Application.trim(Temp)
If trim = True Then
concat = Application.trim(Temp)
Else
concat = Temp
End If
End Function
This is really helpful 🙂
Thank you..!!! 😉
Thanks for this! Saved me hours of work!
Thanks so much for letting us know about this trick!! 🙂
I didn’t know that concatenate has a limit for the number of arguments until I hit that number and was told I have typed in too many arguments in the function. Is there an alternative for this?
@Fred
Instead of =Concatenate(A1, A2 …A100)
you can use =A1&A2&A3 … &A100
or you can use a UDF like those described at:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
Read the comments as well as there are several great additions to the basic code
eg: =Concat(A1:A100,”,”) which will concatenate the values from A1 to A100 with a Comma in between each character
=Concatif(B1:B5,A1:A5,1) which will concatenate the values from A1 to A5 where the corresponding cell in B1:B5 is = 1 etc
Thank you so much!!!
Wow Amazing, very handy.
Great Man,
Thanks!
BR/Syed Bilal
Hi, what if the information in the cells are numbers? I tried using this trick A1&B1 but the numbers can’t be added anymore using AutoSum. In other words, the numbers weren’t considered as numbers by Excel. What do I do?
@Reina
When I use =A1&A2 with 1 in A1 and 2 in A2 I get 12 which is what I should get
can you explain what / how your not getting the same answer?
Hi, I finally found the answer. I just had to put =VALUE(A1&B1) so that the information in the cells will still be considered as numbers.
Hi thanks for wonderful examples.
I want to combine text strings from different cell with ,’s as delimiter and ‘and’ before the last text.
Forexmaple a, b, c, and d
Regards
Rohit
@Rohit
There is a post which discusses a Concat Function here:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
You could use this as part of a formula
eg: =Concat(A1:A10,”,”)&” and “&A11
If you would like me to modify the concat function to do that let me know
Hi Hui
Thanks for your swift reply and support. Actually I am not the VB expert and hecne is there any other formulas that I can use to make dynamic excel!
Regards
Rohit
@Rohit
The technique in the post doesn’t even add “,” to the data as you requested
I am Happy to assist you adding this to a file if you want
Please email me or post here
Brilliant!!! Thx for sharing!
Awesome Chandoo – You are my Excel Hero. Thanks for sharing
Worked a treat. Many thanks, Rachael
Delimeters do not work, just throws up an error.
Worked it out. The example that looks like this:
TRANSPOSE(B2:B19 & “,”)
Write it like this instead:
TRANSPOSE(B2:B19&“,”)
WOW! Excellent trick!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much — exactly what I needed
Thanks.. Its worked for me and reduced lot of time 😀
hello, i’ve seen and using all this examples and methods and are very useful but in my case it doesn’t mach what i need it for i you guys can give me hand here…
i need to create a list of attributes in just one cell separating each other with an “:” using the a2:cv2 just notice that in some of the columns are empty because the filter in that product doesn’t apply.
for example
a2= black, b2= , c2= small… cv2= cube
so this should look like this at the end. “Black:Small:Cube”
but with formula =concadenate(a2:cv2&”:”)
= “Black::small::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::cube:”
so i’m looking to do this for each row taking in consideration each column selected to create the right attributes applied for the product and no extra space (knowing that an extra space is taked for my upload system that each “:” is a new attribute ) and also when i do this excel make an auto correct option but not copying the formula and just the result in all the rows and i need to make a copy of the original formula and make it valid per each one on the following 3k rows..
Thanks for your collaboration
😀
This is very neat. What’s the delimiter for a new line in Excel 2013? Basically in the above example replacing the & “,” with a new line delimiter? I want every column value (each word) to be in a separate line in the same cell.
I got it. I used the CHAR(10) and then manually set the wrap text for the cell at the end
how can we use F9 in muti cells together …i have 100 cells and every cell has array which is working fine but i have to go to each cell and press f9 to see the result and then concatenate. can we not use F9 just once for all cells and then do the rest thing
Can someone suggest shorter way of Exactly opposite of what Chandoo made us learn here, i.e. Seperate text given in “different rows in a single (same) cell (separated by ALT+ENTER) into different rows altogether”?
Its useful
thank you so much , same function is sold online , is there another trick to do the opposite ? i have many values in one cell separated only by space , I tried the column to text but no use , thank again
I was so excited when I saw this and thought how perfect it would be for me to put together the missing records for my IRS file. Alas, since the file record is 750 characters long, and each character is in a row of its own, I have too many arguments for the function.
Guess I’ll get lots of practice doing it in little bites, then combining those little bites into bigger and bigger bites, until it’s one long record. Curse you IRS!
Nice article
I need t to merge rows in one of my excel sheets, so after long googling this simple function has been born and I name it MergeCells(). Calling it is simple, select the range you want to merge, and set the delimiter.
Example:
MergeCells(A23:Q23, “-“)
[vb 1=”vbnet” language=”,”]
Public Function MergeCells(cellsRange As range, delimiter As String) As String
Dim cell As range
Dim mergedCells As String
mergedCells = “”
For Each cell In cellsRange
mergedCells = mergedCells & delimiter & cell.Value
Next cell
MergeCells = Right(mergedCells, Len(mergedCells) – 1)
End Function
[/vb]
When I try this I get a Value error if i dont do the F9. It works with f9, but dont want to write the formula for 300 rows. can anyone help. its 2007
the formula i used is = CONCATENATE(A4:U4 & “,”)
Also, In that row, few cells have no value, and few are numbers and text. Is that a problem?
@Pranitha
Have a read of:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
Particularly my comments at the bottom where I discuss a number of alternative’s
Thank you Hui.. That is a lot detailed.. very helpful
holy carp I’m in love..! Thanks!!!
Chandoo, Great tip!
Thank you SO MUCH for this tip. I’ve been so frustrated with how the CONCATENATE command won’t accept a range of cells, and this is quick and easy to implement, even with the ;–, substitution. You made my life a lot easier!
Thanks a lot bro, helped me save lot of time.
I have another issue with concatenate .. hoping some one can help …
data is in the below form –
112233 SAP BO
112233 SAP BW
123456 Teradata
123456 Qlikview
123456 Talend DI
like above example a huge data with employee IDs in one column and Skill name in another column.
number of times the employee id repeats itself is not constant.
Is there some way i can concatenate using some loop or logic.
Please help.
@Ayush
You can obtain a list of unique names using an Advanced Filter
then I’d suggest using a Concatif() UDF
Read about it here and search for Concatif in the comments
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
There are several versions and I’m sure one can be used to help you
If you come up stuck I’d suggest posting a question at the Chandoo.org Forums
http://chandoo.org/forum/
Attach a sample file to make giving a precise solution easier.
Hi there,
This was very helpful… Do you have a solution if i am trying to concat a string across many worksheets?
For example, cell B4 on Sheet1 would concatenate all the text from cell B4 on Sheets 2:8.
can anyone help?
thanks
Thank you so much. I wanted to concatenate a large number of postcodes for use on a survey, and now thanks to you I don’t have to enter them all.
Awesome work!
Hi, what VBA code do you amend to include a delimiter of “,”
Kind Regards
Brad
This tip is great! Saves a lot of time! Thanks
THIS IS AWESOME!
You freaking saved me! Awesomeeeeee!!!!!!
nice!
I searched all around and this was the best resource. THANKS!!!!
Great . Thanks alot
Hi there
the original formula is very useful and thanks for sharing.
I have a spreadsheet where I need to apply this to over 3,000 rows where the following:
Column A Column B (the information I’m concantenating)
XXXXX1 5 rows
XXXXX2 10 rows
XXXXX3 15 rows
Result:
XXXXX1 (information from 5 rows)
XXXXX2 (infomation from 10 rows)
etc
How do I create the formula and apply it to the whole spreadsheet. What I’m getting stuck on is column B has different amounts and I’m not sure how to copy a formula and apply it again when you need to press F9 and remove brackets.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Looking for help turning this:
RR686
VK165
K2418
L7192
P0636
P4303
P4802
P6084
P7390
P8058
Into these:
‘RR686′.’VK165′.’K2418′.’L7192′.’P0636′.’P4303′.’P4802′.’P6084′.’P7390′.’P8058’.
@Prany
Have a read of:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
Also there are some gems buried in the comments
assume your data is in A column i.e. “A2:A11″. type in B2 cell…=B1&”‘”&A2&”‘.” then drag to B2 cell till B11.
you will get your result in B11 cell.
OMG Thanks! Saved me a lot of time, much better than the VBA approach suggested elsewhere.! Thanks!
Thanks for this trick. it unique trick not able to find anywhere.
This awesome, thank you 🙂
Really nice tipss..
superb
Nice tric chandoo but . in my case its slightly different I don’t want add letter which is once added/I don’t want repeat same letter/word once its added using this formula.. which formula I can use.. Pls help
Nice tric chandoo .but in my case its slightly different I don’t want add letter which is once added.I don’t want repeat same letter orsame word should show more than once ..which formula I can use.. Pls help
Thanks, Grant! You saved me so much time!! I already spent quite a while trying to find an answer to this dilemma until I came across this article through Google search. Excel support ? was not very helpful. You’re the best!
Thanks Chandoo. Awesome trick 🙂
Very nice trick indeed! Got a question.
I got something like this:
23 image.jpg
23 image2.jpg
23 image3.jpg
24 image12.jpg
24 image33.jpg
24 image23.jpg
With the formula given here, it works great to add all 23s values (images) in one cell. Is there any way that I can put a formula or value to take automatically the next batch (24s values) for putting them together in a cell below the 23?
hi, i have the 50,000 rows of the following data in separate columns:
name of company, unit no., block no., block name., postal code.
need to combine all data into the following format:
name of company
unit no
block no. and block name
postal code
does anyone know how to combine cells but format the info to be in different lines?
Awesome…Live saver…Thank you.
HI , great post .
i also have some kind of same requirement
i have the data
edit IP_ 115.47.46.156 ( Both text are in diff. column i have merage them using {E6&F6} since they are in 6th row )
also have some text which is in the different column
set subnat 115.47.46.156 255.255.255.255 also merge them in same manner .
what i want here
i want both of above text in the following manner
edit IP_115.47.46.156
set subnat 115.47.46.156 255.255.255.255
Both are in different column ……… How can i do this by using the formula …
Once again this is another Friday where chandoo turns our horrible day into a smooth work shift 🙂
Thank you you saved my day!!
One Stop solution:
=Concat(“Range”,”Delimiter”
Function CONCAT(useThis As Range, Optional delim As String) As String
Dim retVal, dlm As String
retVal = “”
If delim = Null Then
dlm = “”
Else
dlm = delim
End If
For Each cell In useThis
If CStr(cell.Value) “” And CStr(cell.Value) ” ” Then
retVal = retVal & CStr(cell.Value) & dlm
End If
Next
If dlm “” Then
retVal = Left(retVal, Len(retVal) – Len(dlm))
End If
CONCAT = retVal
End Function
AMAZING! You just saved me light years of time. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for posting!
Cool trick. Thanks 🙂
Love this trick – best one I have seen for this task. Use this frequantly. Thanks
This is my formula to combine text which is present on Range A1:A241 (the range could accept only upto 241). I’m trying to record this into macro to automate, but the formula could not store in macro and showing in red color. How to record this formula as macro and use it?
=CONCATENATE(A1,”>”&A2,”>”&A3,”>”&A4,”>”&A5,”>”&A6,”>”&A7,”>”&A8,”>”&A9,”>”&A10,”>”&A11,”>”&A12,”>”&A13,”>”&A14,”>”&A15,”>”&A16,”>”&A17,”>”&A18,”>”&A19,”>”&A20,”>”&A21,”>”&A22,”>”&A23,”>”&A24,”>”&A25,”>”&A26,”>”&A27,”>”&A28,”>”&A29,”>”&A30,”>”&A31,”>”&A32,”>”&A33,”>”&A34,”>”&A35,”>”&A36,”>”&A37,”>”&A38,”>”&A39,”>”&A40,”>”&A41,”>”&A42,”>”&A43,”>”&A44,”>”&A45,”>”&A46,”>”&A47,”>”&A48,”>”&A49,”>”&A50,”>”&A51,”>”&A52,”>”&A53,”>”&A54,”>”&A55,”>”&A56,”>”&A57,”>”&A58,”>”&A59,”>”&A60,”>”&A61,”>”&A62,”>”&A63,”>”&A64,”>”&A65,”>”&A66,”>”&A67,”>”&A68,”>”&A69,”>”&A70,”>”&A71,”>”&A72,”>”&A73,”>”&A74,”>”&A75,”>”&A76,”>”&A77,”>”&A78,”>”&A79,”>”&A80,”>”&A81,”>”&A82,”>”&A83,”>”&A84,”>”&A85,”>”&A86,”>”&A87,”>”&A88,”>”&A89,”>”&A90,”>”&A91,”>”&A92,”>”&A93,”>”&A94,”>”&A95,”>”&A96,”>”&A97,”>”&A98,”>”&A99,”>”&A100,”>”&A101,”>”&A102,”>”&A103,”>”&A104,”>”&A105,”>”&A106,”>”&A107,”>”&A108,”>”&A109,”>”&A110,”>”&A111,”>”&A112,”>”&A113,”>”&A114,”>”&A115,”>”&A116,”>”&A117,”>”&A118,”>”&A119,”>”&A120,”>”&A121,”>”&A122,”>”&A123,”>”&A124,”>”&A125,”>”&A126,”>”&A127,”>”&A128,”>”&A129,”>”&A130,”>”&A131,”>”&A132,”>”&A133,”>”&A134,”>”&A135,”>”&A136,”>”&A137,”>”&A138,”>”&A139,”>”&A140,”>”&A141,”>”&A142,”>”&A143,”>”&A144,”>”&A145,”>”&A146,”>”&A147,”>”&A148,”>”&A149,”>”&A150,”>”&A151,”>”&A152,”>”&A153,”>”&A154,”>”&A155,”>”&A156,”>”&A157,”>”&A158,”>”&A159,”>”&A160,”>”&A161,”>”&A162,”>”&A163,”>”&A164,”>”&A165,”>”&A166,”>”&A167,”>”&A168,”>”&A169,”>”&A170,”>”&A171,”>”&A172,”>”&A173,”>”&A174,”>”&A175,”>”&A176,”>”&A177,”>”&A178,”>”&A179,”>”&A180,”>”&A181,”>”&A182,”>”&A183,”>”&A184,”>”&A185,”>”&A186,”>”&A187,”>”&A188,”>”&A189,”>”&A190,”>”&A191,”>”&A192,”>”&A193,”>”&A194,”>”&A195,”>”&A196,”>”&A197,”>”&A198,”>”&A199,”>”&A200,”>”&A201,”>”&A202,”>”&A203,”>”&A204,”>”&A205,”>”&A206,”>”&A207,”>”&A208,”>”&A209,”>”&A210,”>”&A211,”>”&A212,”>”&A213,”>”&A214,”>”&A215,”>”&A216,”>”&A217,”>”&A218,”>”&A219,”>”&A220,”>”&A221,”>”&A222,”>”&A223,”>”&A224,”>”&A225,”>”&A226,”>”&A227,”>”&A228,”>”&A229,”>”&A230,”>”&A231,”>”&A232,”>”&A233,”>”&A234,”>”&A235,”>”&A236,”>”&A237,”>”&A238,”>”&A239,”>”&A240,”>”&A241)
Wow! made my life way easier, thank you!
Hi
Great trick dear.
But it only works up to 8132 characters only so please share any other trick that will work for minimum 20000 rows and around more than 2-5 lakhs characters.
This is awesome!!! This solution saved my day! Many thanks!!!
Wow, such a big help!
This is great i think Microsoft should speak to you about using this as a standard formula
mama mia! so handy! thank you!!
OMG…awesome 😀
Oh my God THANK YOU! You’ve no idea… 🙂
Hello – this is a great solution! However, Excel limits the number of characters in a formula to 8,192 characters. I have a list of id numbers that are 7 characters long that I want to combine into a single string. The list has 4,541 records. That’s 31,787 characters plus more for spaces and comas – well above the Excel limit.
Could this be done usng SQL?
thanks again
DW
@David
If you have Excel 2016 or Office 365 you should be able to use some new functions to achieve that
refer: https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2016/02/05/new-ways-to-concatenate-text-in-excel-2016-with-concat-and-textjoin/
If you have an older version of Excel you can use a UDF
Refer: http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/05/28/how-to-add-a-range-of-cells-in-excel-concat/
There are some great solutions included in the comments as well
eg: Concatif() etc
Not able to working it. I have 419 rows some are blank & some are with numbers but getting error when Used CONCATENATE(TRANSPOSE
Many thanks for sharing!!! Very helpful and time saving 🙂
Hi All,
This works fine – but if you copy this peace of code form excel to outlook and then again copy and paste from outlook to back to excel – you will feel it won’t work successfully. Again it split the data into separate rows.
So, Need to know the perfect solution when we do like this?
You are Great Sir.
Very Useful.
Works beautifully!!!! Saved me sooooo much time. THANKS!!!! 🙂
Works perfectly, But vertically not horizontally .
thanks a lot mate. wonderful solution
I want to make a part of the result of concatenation without VBA. how? help please….
I want to make a part of the result of concatenation BOLD or UNDERLINED or ITALICS without VBA. how? help please….
Worked like a charm.. Thank you so much..
This was incredibly helpful. I think you shaved years off my work life (in a very good way). Thanks so much.
The best ever!
Thanks for this trick. Saved a bunch of time!!!!
Great…!!!
Hi,
Its very helpful tips…)
Meanwhile, shall we also do for dates? for Eg: A1 to K1 I am having different dates, I need all these dates in L1, its possible?
Thanks.
Thanks!
When I try doing this, I don’t get the spaces between the words. For example, when I try to mimic your example, the end result I get is: Ohcombiningabunchoftextsintoonebigtextissopainful!Wellnot anymore:). I have Microsoft Excel 2010. Any advice around this would be appreciated.
@Jean
The words in the first column already have a space included at the end of each word
ie: The first cell is “Oh “, not “Oh”
@Jean
If you have access to Excel 2016 or beyond you can use the new function =Textjoin()
eg: =TEXTJOIN(” “,TRUE,A2:A10)
that will join all the text between A2 and A10 and place a space between the values from each cell, The True means it will ignore Blank cells
Thanks Hui, however, I do not seem to have the TEXTJOIN function. Is there something special I need to do to get it? Thanks!!
Actually, nevermind; I found a work around. I just added a comma and a space by doing this =A1 &”,” & ” “. Worked perfectly! Thanks! 🙂 I appreciate the help!
@Jean
If you have access to Excel 2016 or beyond you can use the new function =Textjoin()
It saved my day! Fantastic tip! Thanks a lot!
Dear, Please help to know as how to arrange data in one cell by use comma (,) from a list in one column such as
from one column
504020
504020
302080
504020
302080
504020
to in one cell
302080, 504020
Thanks/Maksud
I generally make use Notepad++ to achieve this by using its unwrap text feature. However now with being able to do this directly in excel, can skip that step 🙂 Sweet!
You’re super awesome… Thanks a tons!!
Man you rock !! you saved me much time as i copied and arranged more than 2000 Cells with this trick
Many thanks
Hi
how can i Combine be giving some specific conditions….i have provided the comments for months in different cells i want combine the text for one month
very nice , thanks for sharing .
thanks for sharing very helpful
How can this be done in reverse? Say you have a one cell with many words. What formula can be used to show each single words being shown down a row (or column)?
This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
Guys,
I have 20000 rows in one column in excel and I need to concatenate every 50 rows. I don’t need a separator, I don’t have a column header. After 50 rows are concatenated into one cell, I need the 49 remaining rows to be deleted so that in the end I have a column with 400 rows and in each row I have 50 original rows concatenated. I don’t wanna do it 400 times. What’s the easiest way to do this?
Thank you!
Chris
It was great .
How it works if i had many columns instead of rows? ( concatenate 15 columns)
Thanks
I’m trying to turn a column of dates into a paragraph list of dates separated by commas. When I use this exact method described above, the layout comes out perfect, but all the dates turn into number values. Can anyone help me keep the dates displaying correctly?
Date column looks like:
8/24/21
8/25/21
8/26/21
What I want it to look like is:
8/24/21,8/25/21, 8/26/21
What it’s doing is:
44432,44433,44434