I had never heard of the 'Trim' command. Thanks. I'll give it a try.

"Tyro" wrote:

Assuming your cells are A1, B1, C1 and D1 then in A2:
=TRIM(A1)&TRIM(B1)&TRIM(C1)&TRIM(D1)

Tyro

"Susie" wrote in message
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I have 4 columns I want to combine with the concatenate function. Column 1
has either 3,4 or 5 characters. When I use the function, it works fine -
except there are spaces after the characters in column 1. There are no
extra
spaces that show up from columns 2,3 or 4.

How do I set column 1 to only take the characters that are there over to
the
concatenated function. I don't want any extra spaces.