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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
Works perfectly Gord - and please excuse my noobness, but how do I make the
function available to all spreadsheets that I open without have to recreate the function each time? Ray D "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? |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
You can copy the UDF into a general module in your Personal.xls which will
make it available for all open workbooks. You could copy/paste it into a general module in a new workbook, save that workbook as an Add-in which you would load through ToolsAdd-ins. I prefer the Add-in method so's I don't have to preface the Function with the workbook name. i.e. if saved in Personal.xls you must enter =Personal.xls!ConCatRange(range) If stored in the add-in =ConCatRange(range) is sufficient. Gord On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:22:00 -0800, rapid1 wrote: Works perfectly Gord - and please excuse my noobness, but how do I make the function available to all spreadsheets that I open without have to recreate the function each time? Ray D "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? |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
Hi,
I want to merge two columns...not two cells only...i have values in column B and C and I like to merge them together in one go...the number of values I got in the columns are more than 19,000 (i.e. I have 19000 rows of data) Can anyone help plz? Thanks in advance Oli "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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
Enter the formula provided by Peo into C1 then double-click on the fill
handle of C1 to copy to end of data in column B BTW.............this operation would not be "merging" the columns, it would be "combining" them. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:42:00 -0800, Oli wrote: Hi, I want to merge two columns...not two cells only...i have values in column B and C and I like to merge them together in one go...the number of values I got in the columns are more than 19,000 (i.e. I have 19000 rows of data) Can anyone help plz? Thanks in advance Oli "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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
Thanks that was helpful, but how do you continue the formula for a lot of
rows. It keeps repeating the 1st one down. Thank you! "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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
is it the same formula for all the rows...it keeps repeating the same thing
all the way down...an ideas? "Batmans_Wife" wrote: Thank you so much for sending me this formula. It worked perfectly and did exactly what I needed. I really appreciate your quick, helpful response. Sincerely, Michelle "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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
what if you wanted to do multiple rows?
"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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
Browse through these postings to which you tacked onto.
http://tinyurl.com/599r3q Make sure that your calculation mode is set to automatic so's you don't get same results all the way down. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:15:02 -0800, j9 wrote: what if you wanted to do multiple rows? "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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
The formula worked perfectly for me as well...thanks for the post.
"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. |
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How do I merge two cells without deleting data from the cell?
try instead of a1&" "$b1": $A1&" "&$B1 then drag/fill the cell however many rows/cols you want to do the "$" makes it absolute and fill wont change the valu immediatly preceded by the "$" so "A" and "B" will never change but "1" in both cases will "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. |
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