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Easily join cell values with specific delimiter in Excel

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Excel provides several functions to concatenate text from multiple cells such as the CONCATENATE function, the TEXTJOIN function or the & symbol. This article is going to show you a handy formula – Values are connected with specified characters of Kutools for Excel. With this formula, you can easily join text from multiple cells with specific characters without manually handling formulas.

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Join cell values with specific delimiter

Please do as follows to join multiple cell values into one in Excel.

1. Select a blank cell to output the result.

2. Click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper.

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3. In the Formulas Helper dialog box, configure as follows.

3.1) In the Choose a formula list box, select Values are connected with specified characters;
Tips: Check the Filter box, enter relative characters or words to filter needed formula.
3.2) In the Range box, select a range of cells to be joined;
3.3) In the Character(s) box, enter a delimiter or select the cell containing a delimiter for separating the combined data;
Note: The delimiter is used to separate the joined texts. It can be a text string, one or more characters.
3.4) Click OK.

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Then texts in selected cells are concatenated into one cell as the below screenshot shown.

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Notes:

1. This feature is only available for Office 2019 and Office 356.
2. Kutools formulas are grouped into 5 types. By default, all formulas are listed in the Choose a formula box. You can choose a formula type in the Formula Type drop down list to only list formulas of this formula type in the Choose a formula box.

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3. You can click Kutools > Formula Helper > Text > Connected value by specific character (string) to enable the feature directly.

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