Comments on: Excel Formulas From a Microsoft MVP!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:09:06 +0000

When I said fancy, I was talking about adding the comma to separate the first and last name. The & operator is simply quick and easy. I never write out “concatenate” anymore, which I think was your point.

By: derek

derek — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:57:59 +0000

See, I don’t regard the & operator as fancy. I regard it as the complete replacement for CONCATENATE(), which I can only suppose is kept around for back-compatibility.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:36:25 +0000

@Derek – a good example would be:

If you had “John” in column A and “Smith” in column B, you could use the concatenate function or & operator to combine them into one cell in a new column.

=CONCATENATE(A1,B1)

Or you can get fancy and add text to the middle and use the & operator. For example:

=A1&B1 results in – John Smith
=A1&”, “&B1 results in John, Smith

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:52:22 +0000

@Derek: concatenate() or & operator are used to add up 2 or more texts

By: derek

derek — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:31:50 +0000

What’s the use of CONCATENATE?

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:27:59 +0000

Hi Tony… Thanks for such a good review

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