The TEXTJOIN function has three arguments. To avoid this, you can use a formula with the TEXTJOIN function (available Excel versions 2019 and later). What if you have three columns and not all of the cells have data in them? Certainly, you could add another cell into your formula with another ampersand, but anytime you had a blank cell, you would also have an additional space character in your output. Formula using the TEXTJOIN FunctionĬompatibility: Excel 2019 or later including Microsoft 365 on all operating systems If so, you can alter your formula to switch the cell order and add a comma before your space: =B2&”, “&A2 2.
Perhaps, you'd rather the final output has the last name first, then a comma, then the first name. Joining the contents of cells A2 and B2 would look like this: =A2&B2.īut to separate the first name from the last name in the output, we use the space character wrapped in quotation marks and add another ampersand. To join cells together we use the ampersand symbol (&). The first way to go about combining text is by using a simple formula. Formula Using Ampersand (&)Ĭompatibility: All versions of Excel on all operating systems. These are great questions and I'm excited to show you three different ways to go about doing this. Today's tutorial is inspired by comments from Prof YC and Mohamad on our YouTube channel asking if we can do the opposite. We explored how to split columns using, Power Query, Text to Columns, Formulas, and Flash Fill. We used the example of a full name column that we wanted to separate into first and last names. Recently, we've been looking at different ways to take information from one column and split it out into two or more columns. Combine Text – FINAL.xlsx Combining Text from Multiple Columns
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