I have 3 cells, filled like this:
John (that's in A1)
Mary (that's in B2)
Ted (that's in C3)
I want to concatenate into B1, but I want the result to be:
John
Mary
Ted - stacked on top of each other
I DON"T want B1 to look like this:
JohnMaryTed -side by side, as concatenate usually functions.
Any ideas how to do it?
Last edited by jomili; 03-11-2010 at 03:56 PM.
=A1&Char(010)&B2&Char(010)&C3
Then format Cell, go to Alignment tab and select Wrap text
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Wow! Fast results, and exactly what I needed. you wouldn't care to elucidate on how/why it works, would you? The formula is easy enough to reproduce, but I'd like to know WHY it works.
Thanks for the help!
Char(010) is the carriage return character... when you Wrap the text, Excel knows to break it at those points...
The & symbols is a shorter (alternative) way to concatenate various strings..
could've used also...
=Concatenate(A1,Char(010),B2,Char(010),C3)
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