combining cells

[kryt0n]

Hi all, I wonder if there's a really quick way of combining/merging cells into one that all contain data.

IE
:can:You:make:this:into:one:cell:

=

:canyoumakethisintoonecell:

I don't need spaces, just one long word.

[Andrew-R]

There's a function, Concatenate, which merges a list of cells, e.g.

=CONCATENATE(A1, B1, C1)

Or you can just list the cells with ampersands between them:

=A1 & B1 & C1

[Andy Pope]

You can use the CONCATENATE function to append various cells in to 1, although each cell needs to be specified.

Otherwise you can use a user defined function to take a selection and return an appended string

[kryt0n]

You're my knight in shining armour AND teaching me to be an excel wizard like you!

Thank you!

[Andrew-R]

This code will give you a worksheet function which will combine a range of cells. Adding error trapping and validation is left as an exercise for the reader

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[Marcol]

If you need a UDF then this might be another way

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If you don't need separators use like this
=Conc(E5:J5)

otherwise
=Conc(E5:J5," * ")

The separator can be any string you might need.

The range can be any size or shape, the function will concatenate by Columns left to right, then by Rows, omitting any blank cells.

Hope this helps