Hi Harry

what happens when you type say in C3
=A1 & B1
or
=CONCATENATE(A1,B1)

Cheers
JulieD

"Harry Macdivitt" <Harry wrote in
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I'm trying to concatenate two halves of a phone number - dialling code in
one
column and number in adjacent column. Concatenate doesn't work, nor does
"&". Numbers are put in as numbers but recorded as text. Big file - 700K