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Concatenating & Formatting
I am concatenating several cells.
I would like for each cell I am concatenating to start a new line within my final cell. If I am just typing in a cell I can do ALT and Enter to start a new line. How can I put that in my formula to make the concatenate do that? |
Concatenating & Formatting
=A1 & CHAR(10) & B1
and Format Cells... Alignment Wrap -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200808 |
Concatenating & Formatting
When I type what you said, I get this #NAME?
Here is my original formula: "CONCATENATE($N$5,"" "",N7)&CONCATENATE($O$5,"" "",O7)&CONCATENATE($P$5,"" "",P7)&CONCATENATE($Q$5,"" "",Q7)&CONCATENATE($R$5,"" "",R7)&CONCATENATE($S$5,"" "",S7)&CONCATENATE($T$5,"" "",T7)&CONCATENATE($U$5,"" "",U7)&CONCATENATE($V$5,"" "",V7)&CONCATENATE($W$5,"" "",W7)&CONCATENATE($X$5,"" "",X7)&CONCATENATE($Y$5,"" "",Y7)&CONCATENATE($Z$5,"" "",Z7)&CONCATENATE($AA$5,"" "",AA7)&CONCATENATE($AB$5,"" "",AB7)&CONCATENATE($AC$5,"" "",AC7)&CONCATENATE($AD$5,"" "",AD7)&CONCATENATE($AE$5,"" "",AE7) &CONCATENATE($AF$5,"" "",AF7)&CONCATENATE($AG$5,"" "",AG7)&CONCATENATE($AH$5,"" "",AH7)" This is my result: Janitorial 0Groundskeeping -90Building Engineer 0Elevator 0HVAC 0Pest Control 0Plumbing 0Trash 0GB R&M 0Pavement 0Security 0Electricity 0Gas 0Water 0Fuel/Steam 0Occ-Other 0F&E Main. Contract 0F&E Main. 0Small Furniture 0F&E Rental 0Misc. 0 I want my result to be: Janitorial 0 Groundskeep -90 Building Engineer 0 etc. "Gary''s Student" wrote: =A1 & CHAR(10) & B1 and Format Cells... Alignment Wrap -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200808 |
Concatenating & Formatting
If you've got #NAME? my suspicion is that you tried to retype the formula
and mistyped it. Just copy =A1 & CHAR(10) & B1 from the newsgroup and paste into the formula bar on your spreadsheet. It is isn't that, then perhaps your Excel is expecting a language other than English? As far as you own formula is concerned, there are a number of questions. Firstly why the multiple double quotes? If you want to include a space, then your concatenation formula would include ...," ",... not ...,"" "",... Secondly why the strange mixture of CONCATENATE and the & operator? =CONCATENATE(A1,B1,C1) is the same as =A1&B1&C1. If you want to include a new line instead of a space, include CHAR(10) instead of the space " " in your formula. -- David Biddulph "Christi" wrote in message ... When I type what you said, I get this #NAME? Here is my original formula: "CONCATENATE($N$5,"" "",N7)&CONCATENATE($O$5,"" "",O7)&CONCATENATE($P$5,"" "",P7)&CONCATENATE($Q$5,"" "",Q7)&CONCATENATE($R$5,"" "",R7)&CONCATENATE($S$5,"" "",S7)&CONCATENATE($T$5,"" "",T7)&CONCATENATE($U$5,"" "",U7)&CONCATENATE($V$5,"" "",V7)&CONCATENATE($W$5,"" "",W7)&CONCATENATE($X$5,"" "",X7)&CONCATENATE($Y$5,"" "",Y7)&CONCATENATE($Z$5,"" "",Z7)&CONCATENATE($AA$5,"" "",AA7)&CONCATENATE($AB$5,"" "",AB7)&CONCATENATE($AC$5,"" "",AC7)&CONCATENATE($AD$5,"" "",AD7)&CONCATENATE($AE$5,"" "",AE7) &CONCATENATE($AF$5,"" "",AF7)&CONCATENATE($AG$5,"" "",AG7)&CONCATENATE($AH$5,"" "",AH7)" This is my result: Janitorial 0Groundskeeping -90Building Engineer 0Elevator 0HVAC 0Pest Control 0Plumbing 0Trash 0GB R&M 0Pavement 0Security 0Electricity 0Gas 0Water 0Fuel/Steam 0Occ-Other 0F&E Main. Contract 0F&E Main. 0Small Furniture 0F&E Rental 0Misc. 0 I want my result to be: Janitorial 0 Groundskeep -90 Building Engineer 0 etc. "Gary''s Student" wrote: =A1 & CHAR(10) & B1 and Format Cells... Alignment Wrap -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200808 |
Concatenating & Formatting
Hi,
Well I've seen this one before, its a pretty ugly formula and adding &CHAR(10)& between various parts of it makes it all the more ugly. First if you are trying to put a space between every two entries "" "" will not work, use " ". A pair of double quotes, not two pairs. -- Thanks, Shane Devenshire "Christi" wrote: When I type what you said, I get this #NAME? Here is my original formula: "CONCATENATE($N$5,"" "",N7)&CONCATENATE($O$5,"" "",O7)&CONCATENATE($P$5,"" "",P7)&CONCATENATE($Q$5,"" "",Q7)&CONCATENATE($R$5,"" "",R7)&CONCATENATE($S$5,"" "",S7)&CONCATENATE($T$5,"" "",T7)&CONCATENATE($U$5,"" "",U7)&CONCATENATE($V$5,"" "",V7)&CONCATENATE($W$5,"" "",W7)&CONCATENATE($X$5,"" "",X7)&CONCATENATE($Y$5,"" "",Y7)&CONCATENATE($Z$5,"" "",Z7)&CONCATENATE($AA$5,"" "",AA7)&CONCATENATE($AB$5,"" "",AB7)&CONCATENATE($AC$5,"" "",AC7)&CONCATENATE($AD$5,"" "",AD7)&CONCATENATE($AE$5,"" "",AE7) &CONCATENATE($AF$5,"" "",AF7)&CONCATENATE($AG$5,"" "",AG7)&CONCATENATE($AH$5,"" "",AH7)" This is my result: Janitorial 0Groundskeeping -90Building Engineer 0Elevator 0HVAC 0Pest Control 0Plumbing 0Trash 0GB R&M 0Pavement 0Security 0Electricity 0Gas 0Water 0Fuel/Steam 0Occ-Other 0F&E Main. Contract 0F&E Main. 0Small Furniture 0F&E Rental 0Misc. 0 I want my result to be: Janitorial 0 Groundskeep -90 Building Engineer 0 etc. "Gary''s Student" wrote: =A1 & CHAR(10) & B1 and Format Cells... Alignment Wrap -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200808 |
Concatenating & Formatting
Hi again,
I see I have more to add: you might consider replacing this type of thing: CONCATENATE($N$5,"" "",N7)&CONCATENATE($O$5,"" "",O7) with CONCATENATE($N$5," ",N7,$O$5," ",O7) or =$N$5&" "&N7&$O$5&" "&O7 both of these are shorter and they don't change the result. -- Thanks, Shane Devenshire "Christi" wrote: When I type what you said, I get this #NAME? Here is my original formula: "CONCATENATE($N$5,"" "",N7)&CONCATENATE($O$5,"" "",O7)&CONCATENATE($P$5,"" "",P7)&CONCATENATE($Q$5,"" "",Q7)&CONCATENATE($R$5,"" "",R7)&CONCATENATE($S$5,"" "",S7)&CONCATENATE($T$5,"" "",T7)&CONCATENATE($U$5,"" "",U7)&CONCATENATE($V$5,"" "",V7)&CONCATENATE($W$5,"" "",W7)&CONCATENATE($X$5,"" "",X7)&CONCATENATE($Y$5,"" "",Y7)&CONCATENATE($Z$5,"" "",Z7)&CONCATENATE($AA$5,"" "",AA7)&CONCATENATE($AB$5,"" "",AB7)&CONCATENATE($AC$5,"" "",AC7)&CONCATENATE($AD$5,"" "",AD7)&CONCATENATE($AE$5,"" "",AE7) &CONCATENATE($AF$5,"" "",AF7)&CONCATENATE($AG$5,"" "",AG7)&CONCATENATE($AH$5,"" "",AH7)" This is my result: Janitorial 0Groundskeeping -90Building Engineer 0Elevator 0HVAC 0Pest Control 0Plumbing 0Trash 0GB R&M 0Pavement 0Security 0Electricity 0Gas 0Water 0Fuel/Steam 0Occ-Other 0F&E Main. Contract 0F&E Main. 0Small Furniture 0F&E Rental 0Misc. 0 I want my result to be: Janitorial 0 Groundskeep -90 Building Engineer 0 etc. "Gary''s Student" wrote: =A1 & CHAR(10) & B1 and Format Cells... Alignment Wrap -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200808 |
Concatenating & Formatting
Hi once more,
If you are happy with the values being concatenate not the references than you could use a custom VBA function such as this: Function MyCon(R As Range) As String Dim T As String Dim cell As Range For Each cell In R T = T & cell.Offset(-2, 0) & " " & cell Next cell MyCon = T End Function In a cell you would enter =MyCon(N7:AH7) If any of these suggestions have helped please click the Yes button. -- Thanks, Shane Devenshire "Christi" wrote: I am concatenating several cells. I would like for each cell I am concatenating to start a new line within my final cell. If I am just typing in a cell I can do ALT and Enter to start a new line. How can I put that in my formula to make the concatenate do that? |
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