One way ..
Assume your data to be concat in cols B to E, from row 2 down
In F2: =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(B2&" "&C2&" "&D2&" "&E2)," ","*")
Copy down as far as required. voila? immortalize this response, hit YES
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Max
Singapore
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"Bob Freeman" wrote:
Hello - I am trying to create a field that concatenates cells that are
populated from the previous 12 cells on that row, but excluding blanks and
adding a * delimited character between each instance. Please find a 4 column
example below

ID 1 2 3 4 Result required
Z A C D A*C*D
Y B C B*C
X A B D A*B*D

I will be applying this to a 2007 version spreadsheet containing in excess
of 10,000 lines. There will be at least 5 blank cells on each row.