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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

CONCATENATE

Joins several text strings into one text string.
Syntax
CONCATENATE (text1,text2,...)
Text1, text2, ...    are 1 to 30 text items to be joined into a single text item. The text items can be text strings, numbers, or single-cell references.
Remarks
The "&" operator can be used instead of CONCATENATE to join text items.
Example
The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank worksheet.


A
1
Data
2
brook trout
3
species
4
32
 
Formula
Description
=CONCATENATE("Stream population for ",A2," ",A3," is ",A4,"/mile")
Concatenates a sentence from the data above (Stream population for brook trout species is 32/mile)