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Merging cells but keeping both sets of date

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Tue 25 Nov 2014, 15:09 Delegate Jess said...

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Merging cells but keeping both sets of date

I have 2 columns both with data for; first name in column A and a surname in Column B.

I need to merge the 2 columns so both the first and surnames are in the same column but when I use merge it only keeps the data from column A.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Wed 26 Nov 2014, 09:23 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Merging cells but keeping both sets of date

Hi Jess,

Thank you for the forum question.

You have two options to do what you want.

If you want to merge A1 and B1 in C1 you can type:
=A1 & " " & B1
or
=CONCATENATE(A1 & " ",B1)
in C1

I hope this is what you need.

Kind regards

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