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Default Merging two columns and keeping the data from both

With text in A1 and B1, in C1 try =A1&","&B1
Is that what you want?
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There is one crucial feature to the 2007 Excel that has been overlooked.
Throughout all versions of Excel there has always been the feature of
converting text to table, however there is no way to do this in reverse.
There is no way to merge two columns of data and to keep all of the data
without one column overwriting the other. If only there were an automatic
way to merge two columns of data and to be able to place a delimited
character in-between, just like the "Convert Text to Columns Wizard",
except
in reverse. Currently, the only way to merge two columns of data is to
manually go row-by-row and cut and paste them together. However, for
500,000
rows of data. this is impossible. Or to use a function to merge two
columns,
however this requires that the original two columns remain. This is also
unacceptable. If Microsoft really wants to make Excel more functional,
how
can this vast improvement be overlooked?


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