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Amazincomes
 
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Hello All,

New to this malarky so I apologise in advance if this is a stupid question :-)

I have an Excel worksheet that contains long columns of names, one with first
names, the other with surnames. Is it possible to merge the two columns so the
date from both appears in just one column?

Thanks in advance...


Seamus Houghton

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Assuming your data in Cols A & B starting row 1, then in cell C1 put

=A1&" "&B1 for merge with a space
=A1&", "&B1 for merge with a comma and space
=A1&" - "&B1 for merge with a space and hyphen and space

then just copy the cell, select C2:Cxx and paste

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Hello All,

New to this malarky so I apologise in advance if this is a stupid question

:-)

I have an Excel worksheet that contains long columns of names, one with

first
names, the other with surnames. Is it possible to merge the two columns so

the
date from both appears in just one column?

Thanks in advance...


Seamus Houghton

"One dream, one soul, one prize, one goal, one golden glance of what

should
be..." www.ownyours.co.uk



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