Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated October 22, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365
There may be times when you have a need to concatenate cells together. For instance, you may have information in three columns, but you want it combined together into the first column of each row. The following macro, StuffTogether, will do just that. It examines the range of cells you select, and then moves everything from each cell in a row into the first cell of the selection.
Sub StuffTogether() Dim R As Range Dim C As Range Dim sTemp As String If Selection.Cells.Count > 1 Then For Each R In Selection.Rows sTemp = "" For Each C In R.Cells If Trim(C.Text) > "" Then sTemp = sTemp & Trim(C.Text) & " " End If Next C R.ClearContents R.Cells(1) = Trim(sTemp) Next R Else MsgBox "Only one cell selected" End If End Sub
You should note that the macro will only work if you select more than a single cell.
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2022-10-22 22:40:26
For Office 365 you could use Textjoin in a formula with a blank delimiter.
2022-10-22 07:54:48
Andy
In Excel 365:
=TEXTJOIN(" ",,A1:A3)
And fill down.
Assuming that you have text in the first 3 columns to concatenate.
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