How to combine cells into a cell with space, commas and semicolon in Excel?
When you combine the cells of a range into a single cell, the combined data may be separated by nothing. But if you want to separate them with specified marks, such as space, commas, semicolon or others, how can you do? This tutorial will introduce some cuts for you.
Merge row / column of cells into one cell with specified marks by formula
Merge row / column of cells into one cell with specified marks by Function
Merge row / column / range of cells into one cell with specified marks by Kutools for Excel
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Merge row / column of cells into one cell with specified marks by formula
In Excel, you can use a formula to combine a row of cells or a column of cells into a single cell. Please do as follows:
Combine cells based on row or column into one with space
Step 1. Typing the formula = A1&" "&B1&" "&C1 into a blank cell, and press Enter button on the keyboard. See screenshot:
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Step 2. Dragging the fill handle over the range that you want to apply this formula, all of the cells have been combined into a cell based on row values with spaces. See screenshot:
Tip: If you want to merge the cell values based on column, you just need to enter this formula = A1&" "&A2&" "&A3&" "&A4 in adjacent blank cell that you want to get the result. Then do as the above steps, you will get the following results:
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Combine cells based on row or column into one with commas
Step 1. Typing the formula =A1&","&B1&","&C1 into a blank cell, and press Enter button on the keyboard. See screenshot:
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Step 2. Dragging the fill handle over the range that you want to apply this formula, all of the cells in a row will be combined into a cell with commas. See screenshot:
Tip: You can also merge the column of cell values into one cell with commas, just type this formula =A1&","&A2&","&A3&””&A4.Then do with above steps.
Note: you can change "'," to meet your needs. For example, if you want to separate the data with semicolons, you can change "," to ";".
Merge row / column of cells into one cell with specified marks by Function
In Excel, you can also use function to combine cells of row or column into a single cell with spaces or specified marks.
1. Hold ALT button and press F11 on the keyboard to open a Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and copy the VBA into the module.
VBA: Combine cells based on row or column into one with commas:
Function Combine(WorkRng As Range, Optional Sign As String = ",") As String
'Update 20130815
Dim Rng As Range
Dim OutStr As String
For Each Rng In WorkRng
If Rng.Text <> "," Then
OutStr = OutStr & Rng.Text & Sign
End If
Next
Combine = Left(OutStr, Len(OutStr) - 1)
End Function3. Typing formula =Combine(A1:C1) in a blank cell, and press Enter button in the keyboard, and the data in cell A1 to C1 will be merged into a cell and separated by commas. See screenshot:
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4. Dragging the fill handle over the range that you want to apply this formula, all of the cells in the row will be combined into a cell with commas. See screenshot:
Tip: With above User Defined Function, you can also combine cell values based on column, you just need to enter this formula =Combine(A1:A4) after copying above code into the Module.
Note: You can change "," to meet your need. For example, if you want to merge cells into a cell with space, you can change "," to" ".
Merge row / column / range of cells into one cell with specified marks by Kutools for Excel
If formula and function are difficult for you, you can quickly combine cell values by row, column or a range into one single cell with Kutools for Excel's Combine function.
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1. Select a range cell values that you want to combine into a cell.
2. Please apply Combine function by clicking Kutools > Combine. See screenshot:
3. And a dialog will be displayed, and then do as follows:
(1.) If you need to combine a range of cell data into one single cell, please do as this:
Check Combine into single cell in To combine selected cells according to following options section;
Select the separator you want to separate the combined data in Specify a separator section.
Then click OK or Apply button, and you will get the following result, see screenshot:
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(2.) If you select Combine columns in the To combine selected cells according to following options section in the Combine Columns or Rows dialog, the data in each row will be merged into a single cell, do as follows:
Check Combine columns in the To combine selected cells according to following options section;
Select the separator you want to separate the combined data in Specify a separator section;
Select the place you want to put the result in from the drop-down box;
Select one type from the Options section.
Then click OK or Apply button, the values in each row will be merged. See screenshots:
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(3.) And if you want to merge each column values to one cell with specific separator, please do as this:
Check Combine rows in the To combine selected cells according to following options section;
Specify a separator you want to separate the combined data in Specify a separator section;
Select the place you want to put the result in from the drop-down box;
Select one type from the Options section.
Then click OK or Apply button, the values in each column will be merged and they are separated by the specific marks. See screenshots:
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Where might be the problem?
many thanks
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I have a spreadsheet of over 23,000 serial numbers in Column A, then each serial number has a one-digit Assign number in Column B, and finally an individualized Application number that belongs to both the serial number and assigned number in Column C.
Looks like this:
A B C
123456 1 1212121
987655 2 5656565
606060 1 4343434
606060 1 8989898
How would I combine just the rows of data that have the SAME Serial number and Assign number but different application numbers using a comma?
Such as, I need:
606060 1 4343434, 8989898
Any help would be super appreciated!!!
thanks so much for the helpful resource!!!
May I ask how to modify the VBA Module to have both "," and " "?
Thank you so much!
Most of all, how to end the list with no space and no comma? So to select entire rows of a spreadsheet as resource, which might include a different number of columns?
Please help, as Kutools is not compatible with Mac.
Thanks in advance!
A and B = A ,B
means A column space comma B column
A B C
10 10 =CONCATENATE(A1 ,",",B1,",",C1) RESULTS 10,,10
10 20 30 =CONCATENATE(A1 ,",",B1,",",C1) RESULTS 10,20,10
10 30 =CONCATENATE(A1 ,",",B1,",",C1) RESULTS 10,30,
ABOVE IT IS SHOWING COMMA IN BETWEEN TWO VALUES OR AFTER. I DONT WANT THE COMMA WHERE THE VALUE IS NOT THERE
=SUBSTITUTE(IF(A1="","",A1&",") & IF(B1="","",B1) & IF(C1="","","," & C1),",,",",")
My only issue is that it is including blanks so that my combined output ends up looking like this: "test, test, , , , , , test"
How could I get it to exclude blank cells within the range?
I get an error Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications - Compile error: Syntax error
then the line "If Rng.Text "," Then" is highlighted in blue and on the top highlighted in yellow it says this "function combine(workrng as range, optional sign as string = ",") as string
I am using excel 2016 on a pc
415xxe 5687sdc sa4567
415xxe 5687sdc sa4567
415xxe 5687sdc sa4567
I need to separate these in different columns and then put a comma behind the last column