Concatenate
Concatenate
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CONCATENATE
Show All Joins two or more text strings into one text string. Syntax CONCATENATE (text1,text2,...) Text1, text2, ... are 2 to 255 text items to be joined into a single text item. The text items can be text strings, numbers, or single-cell references. Remarks You can also use the ampersand (&) calculation operator instead of the CONCATENATE function to join text items. For example, =A1&B1 returns the same value as =CONCATENATE(A1,B1). Example The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank worksheet. How to copy an example
A 1 2 3 4 Data brook trout species 32 Formula =CONCATENATE("Stream population for ",A2," ",A3," is ",A4,"/mile")
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Description Concatenates a sentence from the data above (Stream population for brook trout species is 32/mile)
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3/8/2012