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I have two columns of text which I have concatenated but I need the results
to be text not just the results. I have tried copying the column to another
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Did you try PasteSpecial Values?

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I have two columns of text which I have concatenated but I need the

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to be text not just the results. I have tried copying the column to

another
column - that doesn't work so..................



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copy/pastepaste specialvalues

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column - that doesn't work so..................


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The key you seek is to do Copy paste special as values
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column - that doesn't work so..................

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