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    Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hello All,

    I have a problem for which I need the solution ASAP.

    I have values in 4 cells and I want to concatenate them with char(10) but skip if they are blank and just concatenate the cells which are not blank.

    For Example,

    =CONCATENATE(S3,char(10),S4,char(10),S5,char(10),S6) this works but if S4 is blank, it will still execute char(10) after S4 and I don't want that.

    Please let me know if you have any solution to this problem.

    Thank you in advance.

    CP

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hi,

    It's not quite clear what you mean. You say that you won't want it to "execute CHAR(10)" if e.g. S4 is blank, which will currently look like this (in a cell with Wrap Text on):

    A

    C
    D

    So what do you want to see in this case?

    A
    C
    D

    perhaps?

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hi,

    Thanks for the fast reply. You got it right.

    I want it to be like

    A
    C
    D

    I will be using the concatenated value for my chart's data labels.

    Thanks again.

    CP

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hello,

    You could try this...

    =IF(S3<>"",S3&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S4<>"",S4&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S5<>"",S5&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S6<>"",S6&CHAR(10),"")
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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hi

    That works but it still leave char(10) at the end so it creates an empty row at the end.

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    =left(if(s3<>"",s3&char(10),"")&if(s4<>"",s4&char(10),"")&if(s5<>"",s5&char(10),"")&if(s6<>"",s6&char(10),""),len(if(s3<>"",s3&char(10),"")&if(s4<>"",s4&char(10),"")&if(s5<>"",s5&char(10),"")&if(s6<>"",s6&char(10),""))-1)

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    This works like a charm!!!!!!!

    Thank you very much...... Much appreciated.....

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Hi Just another question,

    If all 4 values are blank then?

    It returns #VALUE! error.

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    Got the solution guys.

    =IF(OR(S3<>"",S4<>"",S5<>"",S6<>""),LEFT(IF(S3<>"",S3&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S4<>"",S4&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S5<>"",S5&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S6<>"",S6&CHAR(10),""),LEN(IF(S3<>"",S3&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S4<>"",S4&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S5<>"",S5&CHAR(10),"")&IF(S6<>"",S6&CHAR(10),""))-1),"")

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    Re: Concatenate with char(10) but skip blanks

    You could either test for COUNTA(S3:S6)=0, or exclude the error with =IFERROR()

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