Merging two columns with different data in Excel can be achieved through various methods:

*Method 1: Concatenation*

1. Select the cell where you want to merge data.

2. Use the ampersand (&) operator: `=A1&B1` (assuming columns A and B).

3. Press Enter.

4. Drag the formula down.

*Method 2: Merge Cells*

1. Select the cells to merge.

2. Go to Home tab > Merge & Center.

3. Choose Merge Across or Merge Cells.

*Method 3: Power Query*

1. Select columns A and B.

2. Go to Data tab > From Table/Range.

3. Power Query Editor: Merge Queries > Merge.

4. Choose join type (e.g., Inner Join).

5. Load merged data.

*Method 4: VLOOKUP*

1. Select cell where you want merged data.

2. Use VLOOKUP formula: `=VLOOKUP(A1, B:B, 2, FALSE)`.

3. Press Enter.

4. Drag formula down.

*Tips and Variations:*

- Use CONCATENATE function for multiple columns.

- Use IFERROR for handling errors.

- Use INDEX-MATCH for more complex merges.

*References:*

- Microsoft Excel Support: Merge cells

- Excel Easy: Merge Two Columns

- Contextures: Merge Data from Multiple Columns

Would you like more information on merging specific data types or handling errors?

I never, ever use the CONCATENATE function. Simply put, there are better ways to do things.

If I want to concatenate the text in one cell to another, I use the concatenation operator & instead. Notice how much simpler the first formula is than the second.

=B2 & C2 
=CONCATENATE(B2, C2) 

If you want to concatenate a range of cells, the CONCATENATE function is braindead. You need to list each cell separately. For this reason, the CONCATENATE function isn’t useful in array formulas.

In 2016, Microsoft added the CONCAT function. This was what Excel power users had been asking for, a function that could handle a range of cells and concatenate them together. But as it turns out, I never use that one either.

Instead, I use the daylights out of the TEXTJOIN function, which was introduced at the same time. TEXTJOIN has the same ability to join the contents of a range of cells, but adds the ability to put a delimiter between each of the values. For example, if you want a comma delimited list, you might use:

=TEXTJOIN(", ",,B2:B10) 

Using the preceding formula, Excel puts a comma and space between each of the values in cells B2:B10. Any empty cells in that range are ignored, as the missing second parameter defaults to TRUE to ignore empty cells. But if you want to include the delimiter for every cell, with or without contents, you may use:

=TEXTJOIN(", ",FALSE,B2:B10) 

Can you sum up two columns and put the value in a third column using array formulas? Depending on what you mean, it is possible—but definitely not recommended.

Suppose you select cells C2:C10 and then array-enter (Control Shift Enter) the following formula:

=A2:A10+B2:B10 

You will get A2+B2 in the first cell, A3+B3 in the second, and so on. Seems perfect, right?

The problem comes if you decide that you want to change the formula in one of the cells. You’ll get either a non-responsive Excel (which my Microsoft 365 is now doing) or an error message (Excel 2019 and earlier). To adjust the formula in just one of the cells, you’ll need to first clear it from all of them. And if you’re going to that much trouble, why not just copy down a regular formula like:

=A2+B2 

That kind of a formula can be updated wherever, whenever and however you like.

Now if Quora Prompt Generator (the Asker) is running Excel 2021 or Microsoft 365 and would be satisfied with a formula entered in a single cell, I suggest taking advantage of Excel’s new dynamic array feature. Enter the following formula in a single cell. No need to copy it down or array-entry—just make sure that the receiving column is empty.

=A2:A10+B2:B10 

What you say? That formula looks identical to the previous one! Indeed it is. And the problems with editing the formula for a single cell within the range are only a little less annoying than doing so with an array-entered formula.

Rather than adding up the values in two columns and putting the results in a third column, users often want to multiply the two columns on a row by row basis, then add up the results. No need to see row by row results—just give me the answer and make it snappy! That’s a job for the old-school SUMPRODUCT function, and no need for array-entry or using a recent Excel version.

=SUMPRODUCT(A2:A10,B2:B10) 

Various ways. I’ll post some here.

Typically you can leave the original data there and hide or ignore it. Otherwise you can copy the combined column and use past as values to make it hard and then remove the original data.

If you talk about combining columns as in making 1 column out of 2 then use the merge cell function as shown below (where I did this to combine B1 and B2 into 1 cell.

If there is text in both cells you want to merge it will maintain the value of the first (left) column and discard the rest.

This is called a “Cartesian Product”. You can easily do this in Excel with an included applet called MS Query. These steps will be for Excel 2016, but you can do this with all versions of Excel going back to Excel 5.0 from 1994.

• First, make sure your list has headers in row 1 and the data starts in row 2. Alternatively, set a defined name for your data range. Save the file.
• Select a sheet and upper-left cell where you want the results to go.
• Choose Data > Get External Data > From Other Sources > From Microsoft Query. That brings up the Choose Data Source dialog.
• In the Choose Data Source dialog, select Excel Files and click OK. That brings up the Select Workbook dialog.
• In the Select Workbook dialog, browse to and open the workbook. It can be the same workbook you’re doing this from (if the data you want to query on is saved), or it can be a different workbook. That brings up the Query Wizard - Choose Columns dialog.
• You don’t want the Query Wizard because it doesn’t understand joins. Click Cancel. When prompted to continue editing in Microsoft Query, click Yes. That brings up the Add Tables dialog.
• In the Add Tables dialog, if you don’t see your worksheet or defined name, click the Options button and make sure everything is checked.
• Still in the Add Tables dialog, select your worksheet or defined name and click Add. That adds the table to the query window in the background.
• Now, add the same table again. When prompted that it’s already in the query, click OK. Repeat until you have a copy of the table shown in the background query window for each column of data you want to do this with. When they are all added, click Close on the Add Tables dialog.
• Now you’re in the query window. Each of the copies of the table shows the list of headers. On the first table, double-click the top header. That brings down that column into the results pane below.
• Now go to the 2nd copy of the table, and double-click the 2nd header. Then go to the 3rd copy of the table and double-click on the 3rd header. Repeat until all data columns are shown in the results pane, one column from each table.
• Note that (a) the results pane now has all possible combinations of all the columns, and (b) if there are no duplicates in your source data, then there are no repeated rows in the results pane; each row there is unique.
• Choose File > Return Data to Microsoft Excel. That brings up the Import Data dialog.
• In the Import Data dialog, click OK. This brings back the data to the Excel sheet you started from.
• If your source data ever changes, just right-click anywhere in the returned query data and choose Refresh, to get the new data.

Adding columns together as a they are is a possibility (See ‘A’ below) and the result of the two-column summation (See ‘B’).

To actually put two columns into one it’s possible to select and grab (or copy-and-paste) the source cells (See ‘C’ above) and drag them to the destination cells (See ‘D’).

For “…automatically summing them up…”, select the cells to be summed, or click the cell just below those cells, then click on Excel’s [Sum] button’ (See red arrow below).

Those steps will sum the newly combined column (See ‘E’ above).

The following formula using the CHAR and SEQUENCE functions in Excel can be used to create a sequence of Alphabets from A to Z.

=CHAR(SEQUENCE(26,1,65)) 

If you want to generate this series in Columns, use the following formula.

=CHAR(SEQUENCE(1,26,65)) 

Today? The same as I did yesterday.

=concatenate() allows you to link (concatenate) words, text, numbers, cell contents in a single cell. I usually use the shorthand version instead of spelling ‘concatenate’. Here’s an example I use often:

If I want to reference a line in a numbered list that does not begin in Row 1, I might write

="blah, blah, blah ... See Line "&A16&" for the specific Region."

I could have said:

="blah, blah, blah ... See Line "&Row(A16)&" for the specific Region." and seen a similar result. However, most of the reports I write have many rows hidden, and the real content does not begin on Row 1, so I don’t show Excel’s row numbers. Instead I show my own line numbers. Either way works.

Instead of hard-entering the specific cell number (A16), this could have been a calculation or a lookup that would point into the range.

Another place I use concatenation is when cells need to be wrapped. Excel will do this automatically, but sometimes I want to control the location. I can enter the ASCII line feed code to break the cell contents where I want, as shown in Excel’s Line 18.

="blah, blah, blah ... "&char(10)&"• See Line "&A18&" for the specific Region." See below.

Note that each block of hand-entered text must be enclosed in quotation marks, and each type or source of data separated by the ampersand &.

I seldom use the long version so I only gave the shorthand version. Here is the answer to your question:

=concatenate("blah, blah, blah ... ",char(10),"• See Line "&A18&" for the specific Region.")

In the shorthand version the word ‘Concatenate’ is not needed, the ampersands (&) replace the commas (,).

FYI, to enter the raised dot, if you have a keyboard with the ten-key numeric pad, type Alt-7 (press and hold Alt, press 7, release Alt. The character appears. You can also get one with the Windows [dot] emoji / symbols palette, which is what I use with my small laptops. Other symbols I use often are Alt-248 (Press and hold Alt, press 2, 4, and 8 on the numeric keypad for the degree symbol ° and Alt-241 for the ± [tolerance] symbol. These are also on the Windows [dot] emoji/symbols palette.

Whenever you have an array of cells that have data in them and you want to collect all of the data into one cell, use this trick. This will create one long string holding all of your data, there will be commas, semicolons, and quotation marks between each piece of data but you can easily use the Replace feature found on the Ribbon to remove all of those and replace them with what you want.
Go to a cell that is to the right of all of your data on your worksheet and type this in:
=
Yes, just an equals sign. Now, highlight all of your data in your table, do not include the header row at the top of the columns or the leftmost column if that is used as row headers. You only want to capture the data in the table, no headers.
For instance, your table goes from A1 to G500, you selected B2 to G500 so you will now see
=B2:G500
You could just as easily type in the range if you are so inclined.
Don't hit Enter!
Using your mouse, up in the formula bar, highlight the B2:G500 part of the formula and hit the F9 key. You will see all of your data in one long string with delimiters (",;) between the data. Using your mouse again in the formula bar, delete the curly brackets and the equals sign. Highlight everything that remains. Copy it and then paste special, data only into another cell. Now you can use the Replace feature to change all of those delimiters into semicolons. Replace commas with semicolons, replace quotation marks with nothing, it's the same as deleting them. If you see a zero representing a blank cell from your table, just replace ;0; with ; and it's gone.

If you are using latest versions of Excel then you can use TEXTJOIN function

The best part of this function is, you can skip the empty cells and use delimiter per your choice

Formula = TEXTJOIN(“,”,TRUE,B3:G3) 

Hope it helps!

Multiple Column can easily be combined using Concatenate function while combining Row can be tricky.

Here we have discussed two methods Method 1 can be used to combine both row and Column while Method 2 can be used only for Row.

Method 1 : Multiple columns to one column can be combined into one by using concatenate function but applying function every time can be time-consuming.

Let us see the first method use concatenate function and provide all the cells as an argument you want to combine. Here in this example , we have used

if you want to combine row you can use concatenate formula to achieve as shown below =CONCATENATE(B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,B10)

Below is the Output:If you want to add Space in between just add “ ” as an argument in concatenate function.

Method2 :(Use Only in Combining Row) In this Method we will use Notepad++ First copy all the cell you want to combine from Ms Excel and paste it in Notepad++ New Tab.

After Pasting in note pad ++ it will look something like this

After Pasting in Notepad++ find \r\n and replace it with blank or space if you want gap in between the line (See Below Screen Shot) ,just copy and paste back to MS Excel .

Hope You will like it Please share and Upvote !!!!

Use this simple code to do this task:

Sub combinations() 
    i = 1 
    For Each cella In ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants) 
        For Each cellb In ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("B:B").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants) 
            For Each cellc In ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("C:C").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants) 
                ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("D" & i).Value = cella.Value 
                ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("E" & i).Value = cellb.Value 
                ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("F" & i).Value = cellc.Value 
                i = i + 1 
            Next 
        Next 
    Next 
End Sub 

This will give the output in column D,E,F.

How to use the code:

1. press Alt+F11
2. Insert > Module
3. paste the above code
4. Press F5 to run the code

Select the column you want to move and then hover the mouse pointer to the column edge (below the column header) until it changes from a regular cross to a 4-sided arrow cursor.

Drag the column to the new location while keeping the Shift key depressed. The formulas should adjust to the new locations of the cells.

Concatenate formula in excel is used to join data of different cells.
You can even join extra word, delimiter or a number with existing data in excel.
Concatenate formula is very useful and also very easy to use.

type =concatenate and just keep on selecting the cells which you want to join and keep on adding comma in between all of them.

For adding a text which is not present in excel, just type it within double quotes inside the formula and apply comma after that.

for adding number which is not present in excel, type it as it is; don’t put it inside double quotes.

Same task you can do without using concatenate formula also. For that, please see this short video

Combination is a counting rule that allows us to count the number of outcomes. We use a combination formula when internal order does not matter. For example, AB is the same as BA this example calculate the possible number of the pair of the letters available from the four characters ABCD.

The combination function is one of the most important functions in Excel. Basically, we use individual formulas to get outcomes based on your requirements. Sometimes we need to combine one formula to other formulas. This function is called a combination function.

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In Excel, you can separate the data in multiple columns with the help of the “Text to Columns”.

For example, you have the list of the entrepreneurs and you want to separate the First and Last names of these entrepreneurs in different columns.

Follow these steps:

Step 1 - Now you have to select the cells from A2 to A5 and press the Text to Columns shortcut key which is Alt + A + E or you can navigate through Data Tab > Data Tools > Text to Columns.

Step 2 - There are 2 options which you can choose based on the requirement:

a - You can select Delimited if your data have the characters such as commas or tabs separate field based on which you want to split the data into multiple columns.

b- You can select Fixed width if your data have the fields which are aligned in columns with spaces between each field based on which you want to split the data into multiple columns.

As per our requirement, we will choose the Delimiter option because we want to separate the data based on the space in the names. Click on Delimiter and then click on Next.

Step 3 - Now select the option which suits your requirement based on which you want to separate the data:

a - Tab

b - Semicolon

c - Comma

d - Space

e - Others (Use any characters which are not mentioned above).

As per our requirement, we will click on the Space checkbox and then click on Finish to get the First and Last of the entrepreneurs in 2 columns.

Enjoy the answer!

You can combine data from multiple cells into a single cell using the Ampersand symbol (&) or the CONCAT function.

Combine data with the Ampersand symbol (&)

1. Select the cell where you want to put the combined data.
2. Type = and select the first cell you want to combine.
3. Type & and use quotation marks with a space enclosed.
4. Select the next cell you want to combine and press enter. An example formula might be =A2&" "&B2.

Combine data using the CONCAT function

• Select the cell where you want to put the combined data.
• Type =CONCAT(.
• Select the cell you want to combine first.
• Use commas to separate the cells you are combining and use quotation marks to add spaces, commas, or other text.
• Close the formula with a parenthesis and press Enter. An example formula might be =CONCAT(A2, " Family").

See:

Simply use the CONCATENATE function.

How to use the Excel CONCATENATE function

The question may have multiple meanings;

Possible meaning 1. A function is used on column A and column B with the result shown in column C. Sort on column C

To do this select the data in columns A, B and C (NOTE: the source data for the columns as well as the answer column must be included in the sort)

• Menu: Data
• Ribbon: Sort
• Option: Sort by column C

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Possible meaning 2. Merge the 2 columns into a single column then apply a sort. using the same table above the 2 columns joined together would look like this

This one is a little more difficult however using Office365 there are a few of the newer functions that can do this. NOTE that these functions spill data into cells below where the function is used and if the cells below are not empty a #Spill error will result

VSTACK: Allows multiple columns to be stacked on top of each other to create a single column

UNIQUE: will remove duplicate values. May not be required in this example

SORT: sorts the data

When using these functions it is possible to reference the results of each one by using the cell that contains the function with #. For example the result of the VSTACK function is returned into C3 and spilled into the cells below. By using C3# excel knows that its a spilled cell and will use all of the data

Using these 3 functions will create a sorted list of unique values. The functions used are shown at the top of each column in text form however the actual functions are in C3, D3 and E3

It is possible to combine these functions into a single formula but readability drops …

=SORT(UNIQUE(VSTACK(A3:A12,B3:B12)),1,1)

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There is a somewhat long winded way to do this in earlier versions of excel.

• TEXTJOIN the array specifying a delimiter (in this example a comma)

• COPY/PASTE VALUES of above into a new worksheet. You can’t use the formula in the following steps, it must be values
• Use TEXT TO COLUMNS to split the data into separate cells based on the delimiter
• COPY/PASTE TRANSPOSE to turn the horizontal list to a vertical list
• SORT

There is a risk that the sort may not work as expected given numbers are turned into text during this process. If all the data is numeric Excel figures it out and treats them as numbers but if the data is text and numeric then the numbers are treated as text.

The "Text to Columns" feature in Excel is used to split a single column of text into multiple columns based on a specified delimiter or fixed width. This feature is helpful when you have data in a single column that needs to be separated into different columns for easier analysis or formatting. Here's how it works:

1. Delimited Data: If your data is separated by a specific character or delimiter (e.g., comma, tab, semicolon), you can use the "Text to Columns" feature to split the data into separate columns. Here's how:

a. Select the column containing the data you want to split.

b. Go to the "Data" tab in the Excel ribbon.

c. Click on the "Text to Columns" button.

d. In the Text to Columns Wizard, choose the "Delimited" option.

e. Select the delimiter character that separates the data (e.g., comma, tab, semicolon).

f. Preview and adjust the column format if needed.

g. Click "Finish" to split the data into separate columns.

2. Fixed Width Data: If your data has a consistent width for each column, you can use the "Text to Columns" feature to split it based on fixed widths. Here's how:

a. Select the column containing the data you want to split.

b. Go to the "Data" tab in the Excel ribbon.

c. Click on the "Text to Columns" button.

d. In the Text to Columns Wizard, choose the "Fixed Width" option.

e. Add column break lines to specify the widths where you want to split the data.

f. Preview and adjust the column format if needed.

g. Click "Finish" to split the data into separate columns.

By using the "Text to Columns" feature, you can quickly and accurately split data in a single column into multiple columns, making it easier to work with, analyze, and format the data in Excel.