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    Excel 2010: Can you merge multiple columns, but keep all data?

    I have made a large excel sheet with over 1000 items/rows. There are currently about 70 fields (with 70 different columns) that are all different. But I want to reduce that number. I want to merge many of them, but keep the data, and separate them by commas or something. But the data may be different in these columns. For example, I have 10 columns (Brass, Aluminum, Glass, etc). I want to make those 10 columns one, and I want it to list the different material types in one column. And some items may have multiple material types, so I need them separated by a comma or space.
    I attached 2 pictures of an example of what I want.

    Data sheet example part 1.JPG


    Data sheet example part 2.JPG

    Could someone please tell me the process, point me to a page, or a video tutorial?

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    Re: Excel 2010: Can you merge multiple columns, but keep all data?

    I would strongly advise against merging cells in a raw data sheet, it will cause problems later on if the data ever needs to be sorted, pivoted, used in formulas, etc.

    Seems like you should be able to get the desired results by using concatenate though, or just ampersands.

    Example: = CL2 & ", " & CM2 & ", " & CN2 ....... and so on

    Or,

    =CONCATENATE(CL2,", ",CM2,", ",CN2"...................)
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