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Default How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?

Browse through these postings to which you tacked onto.

http://tinyurl.com/599r3q

Make sure that your calculation mode is set to automatic so's you don't get
same results all the way down.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:15:02 -0800, j9 wrote:

what if you wanted to do multiple rows?

"anthony561fl" wrote:

This works great. However, what if Im wanting to combine several columns, say
50 or 100 columns worth of data? Id hate to have to enter each cell name in
that formula. Is there a way to specify a range of columns or cells rather
than each one before and after ampersands?



"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

You can't, you can concatenate 2 cells into one by using a formula and
ampersand

=A1&" "&B1


however stay away from merging cells, always cause more problems than what
it's worth and layout wise you can get very close without using it. I have
never seen a power user using merging

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Batmans_Wife" wrote:

I'm highlighting two cells in the same row, hitting format cells, alignment,
merge cells and I'm getting the error message, "The selection contains
multiple data values. Merging into one cell will keep the upper-left most
data only." I want to be able to make the two seperate cells one without
deleting anything and without having to cut and paste.