Excel tutorial concatenate function. Concatenate hello world. Concatenate hello world. As a worksheet function the concatenate function can be entered as part of a formula in a cell of a worksheet. Once youve selected the cell click on the formula bar at the top to begin typing in your new concat or concatenate formula.
Use the operator to. The concatenate function is a built in function in excel that is categorized as a stringtext function. Add double quotation marks with a space between them. Start by opening your excel spreadsheet and selecting an empty cell.
Once the formula bar is active you can begin to type in your formula. The concatenate function concatenates joins join up to 30 text items together and returns the result as text. The syntax of excel concatenate is as follows. The string hello has an extra.
Join text strings in excel. The item can be a text value cell reference or a number. Text2 required argument the additional text items that we wish to join. In the latest versions of excel concatenate function is deprecated in favor of the concat function which is more flexible.
Select an empty cell. Add a space after the text argument. The concatenate function may not be available in future versions of excel. Use the operator to produce the exact same result.
The concatenate function uses the following arguments. Text1 required argument this is the first item to join. The concatenate function below concatenates the string in cell a1 the string and enclose text in double. While working with excel we are able to join two or more text strings into one by using the concatenate function.
The concatenate function in excel is designed to join different pieces of text together or combine values from several cells into one cell. Concatenate text1 text2 where text is a text string cell reference or formula driven value. The concatenate function below concatenates the string in cell a1 and the string in cell b1. There are two ways to do this.