Thankyou Gord I tried to write this code my self and failed your sorce code
is what i needed to get started I wish Microsoft wold make this a standard in
thier formulas as I find it very useful I still need to modify it slightly to
work with more applications but at least I have the start I needed and have
you to thank for that


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Not without a User Defined Function like this one.

Function ConCatRange(CellBlock As Range) As String
Dim Cell As Range
Dim sbuf As String
For Each Cell In CellBlock
If Len(Cell.text) 0 Then sbuf = sbuf & Cell.text & " "
' for comma-delimited change above " " to ","
Next
ConCatRange = Left(sbuf, Len(sbuf) - 1)
End Function

Usage is: =concatrange(A1:Z1)

No blank cells will be ignored.

For similar methods with code see this search result from google

http://tinyurl.com/6ao6k4


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:46:01 -0700, 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.

Thanks

Good luck on the rest.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:50:01 -0800, MK wrote:

Thankyou Gord I tried to write this code my self and failed your sorce code
is what i needed to get started I wish Microsoft wold make this a standard in
thier formulas as I find it very useful I still need to modify it slightly to
work with more applications but at least I have the start I needed and have
you to thank for that


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Not without a User Defined Function like this one.

Function ConCatRange(CellBlock As Range) As String
Dim Cell As Range
Dim sbuf As String
For Each Cell In CellBlock
If Len(Cell.text) 0 Then sbuf = sbuf & Cell.text & " "
' for comma-delimited change above " " to ","
Next
ConCatRange = Left(sbuf, Len(sbuf) - 1)
End Function

Usage is: =concatrange(A1:Z1)

No blank cells will be ignored.

For similar methods with code see this search result from google

http://tinyurl.com/6ao6k4


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:46:01 -0700, 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.

Thank you Peo!

That's a great formula!

-Jim

"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.

"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.

I am trying to merge 3 columns into one to put on a mailing label. I am
trying to concantinate and my formula is =("A2,&B2" ",&C2")

Only the Middle field does not already have an empty character at the end of
the cell so they don't need a blank space in between. I want my results to
be: To the ________ Family

Problem: I haven't tried this since upgrading to Office 2007 and I get the
formula in the cell but not the results? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

"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.

I'm new to this... where do I place the formula?
Thanks,



"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.

Any cell that you want--except for A1 and B1.

I like to insert a new helper column (Maybe column C in this case, so it's close
to the data), then use the cells in that new column.

GetWet wrote:

I'm new to this... where do I place the formula?
Thanks,

"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.

--

Dave Peterson

wow! many thanks... it worked perfectly fine and solved my problem. Best
Regards, Wahaj

"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.

Are there any characters that can be added between the &" and the "& so that
the combined cells can appear as a list instead of a line? For instance, I
have two sentences in two different cells. I want to put in one cell, but
have one above the other with spacing in between.

"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.

This worked perfectly, however, I now need to put a comma between the two
names - i.e. currently I have Smith John in one cell, and need Smith, John in
one cell. Is there a way to do that?

"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.