come up with another option to concatinate

[PrncssJ]

Hey guys, I am having an issue where I am attempting to do something and it is taking a loooong time.....so I am hoping you guys can help.

I have a pivot that pulls together data and I have to report each activity for each person within a task....I've been using concatinate to do this, but it takes an extremely long time. I was hooping that you guys can see something that I am not.


concatinate improvment.xlsx

[Jacc]

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you fill in the expected result in some of the cells?

[FDibbins]

Agree with Jacc, your question is a bit hazy

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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[PrncssJ]

Ok, maybe my example was a little hazy sorry...i have a better example here I think...but instead of just the first teo, it will need to be the whole list....basicaly a way to merge the activites into one cell....with out having to concatinate every time.

concatinate improvment.xlsx

[FDibbins]

That helps, thanks

Maybe this, in D4, copied down?
=IF(B4="",D3&"-"&C4,C4)

If you dont want the "progression" shown, then use the above in D, then add this in E4, copied down...
=IF(B5="","",D4)

Then hide column D