![]() ![]() This can be very time-consuming, difficult to read, and is subject to errors. = CONCAT ( A2 : D2 )ĬONCAT maintains all the other features of CONCATENATE, including the need to manually insert individual delimiters such as spaces, ampersands, commas, etc., between strings if needed.įor example, to place the area code within dashes in the above example, we would enter: = CONCAT ( A2, "(", B2, ")", C2 : D2 )Ī major disadvantage of both the CONCAT and CONCATENATE functions is that delimiters have to be entered individually, even if the delimiter between each argument is the same. With this flexibility, we can quickly combine the above phone numbers into one string by using the A2 to D2 range as the argument of the CONCAT function, which CONCATENATE cannot do. )Įach argument may be a cell reference, a range of cell references, or a text string typed directly into the formula. Starting with the 2016 version of Excel, the CONCAT Excel function has joined the family of text functions, and like CONCATENATE, CONCAT exists to join multiple text strings into one string. This is too bad, but this is where the CONCAT function steps up. If we attempt to apply the CONCATENATE Excel function using the range A2:D2 as an argument, Excel will return a #VALUE! error. The following example has elements of a group of phone numbers broken out across four columns. As useful as the CONCATENATE Excel function is, if the strings to be joined are in a contiguous range, and require no delimiters like commas or spaces, it is unable to accept a range as an argument.Will return a result of Good "morning because no comma was entered to separate the two strings. A somewhat common unexpected is that a quotation mark appears in the result string because of omitting a comma between arguments. CONCATENATE can get a bit cumbersome, especially when adding delimiters.Note that in the above instance, we removed the space and comma after B2 since it was no longer needed with the insertion of the line break character - CHAR(10).Ĭolumn F was also formatted to Wrap Text so as to display the results. To do so, we can use the CHAR(10) unicode character to insert a line break. We may want to display some of these elements in separate lines. If a numeric value is entered as a string within double quotes, then it is converted to text and a delimiter may be placed within that argument since it behaves like any other text value. ![]() In our example above, we entered a space between two double quotes as our second argument, and this was reflected in the output cell. ![]() If any other delimiter is entered, Excel will return an error message. Therefore, typing a space within that argument will have no effect on the value which is returned. When numeric values are entered as a string, they are interpreted as numbers. In the following example, the street number will be entered directly into the CONCATENATE formula and will be joined to the cell references to create the full address. When submitting numeric values directly into a CONCATENATE formula, there is no need to enter the numeric values within quotation marks. Note that since both a comma and space were required after B2 and C2, the text string “, ” was typed as an argument after both cell references. It is important to remember that if a space or some other character (e.g., comma) is required between elements, it has to be manually typed between each cell reference within double quotation marks. We can use CONCATENATE to join all five elements into one string. In the worksheet below, the address elements are all split across five columns. To learn how to use this function, let’s take a look at an example. CONCATENATE can accept up to 255 arguments, with a maximum of 8,192 characters. Only one argument is required, but if you’re using this function, it’s likely that you have at least two. )Įach argument may be a cell reference or a text string typed directly into the formula. The syntax of the CONCATENATE function is: = CONCATENATE (text1. ![]()
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