Given the conditions you stated, it seems this should work...

=A1&A2&A3&A4

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Art" wrote in message
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_________A
1_________
2_________
3_______Hello
4_________
5_______Hello

I have a single column range (A1:A4). One and only one of the cells
contains
a text entry (cell A3 in this example). I want to enter a formula into A5
that will return this text entry.

Thanks,
Art