Improve the Concatenate Function
Make Concatenate to Work with Range of Cells / Arrays rather than 1 cell separated by Comas
=CONCATENATE(Array,Seperator)
The Array to Accept A1:A10 or A1:D1 or {"Abb","Areva","BHEL"} or {"ABB";"Areva";"BHEL}
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Sameer Bhide
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Update – 2016-03-07
Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that we’ve completed adding new =CONCAT and =TEXTJOIN functions to Excel 2016 (as part of Office 365 – builds 16.0.6528 and later) that should do what’s been requested here. You can read more about it on our blog:
Cheers,
Dan [MS]
19 comments
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Sameer Bhide
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Only in the Subscription product and not in the MSI version - This is a huge disappointment - we cant distribute solutions based on TEXTJOIN - when will this be available in the MSI versions
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Sameer Bhide
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It also has TEXTJOIN which accepts Delimiters - This is simply great
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Sameer Bhide
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@ Excel Team - Great work
After yesterday's update - Excel 2016 now has CONCAT !!! which accepts range of cells as a parameter
- Now ever there is now parameter to accept a delimiter - we have to resort to array entered formulas
=CONCAT(A1:A10," ") - Array entered -
ms@baccma.co.uk
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I have an array {"a","b","c","d"} and want to return a single string "abcd". CONCATENATE() won't do it at present and nor will anything else. Could you get CONCATENATE to work with arrays?
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Cori
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A new Function that allows you to take the values in different cells and concatenate them into one cell deliminated by commas. For Example:
If I have A1 B1 and C1 with the values Red Blue and Green. I type =LIST(A1:C1) and the output is Red,Blue,Green -
Gareth Hayter
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Brian Canes
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Allow for concatenating an array or range
Regards
Brian -
aikimark1955
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You are welcome to use my BetterConcateFunction or use it as a model for your improvement.
http://rdsrc.us/GOGGgl -
S Saqib Husain
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10 times Patrick's
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Patrick Matthews commented
Yes, yes, one thousand times yes!
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Jan Karel Pieterse
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Thanks guys, great improvement!
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Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)
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Great news, but long overdue. If it helps any, you may find the way I implement a similar type function helpful as it regards the direction of concatenation for rectangular ranges. Here are links to the two articles I have posted on this in my mini-blog...
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/f22/flexible-concatenation-function-313/
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/f22/formatted-flexible-concatenation-function-582/
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Felipe Costa Gualberto commented
Great news, Microsoft! This is going to boost formula text experience to a whole new level!
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Gareth Hayter
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Please also add an optional parameter to specify whether null/blank/whitespace-only elements should be omitted/skipped.
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Thanks for your feedback! As Dan said, we're building your suggestion now.
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Jan Wx, NZ
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This can't come soon enough
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Dan Battagin [MS XL]
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Thanks for the feedback folks. Guess what?! We're working on this area right now.
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Jon Peltier
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Like VBA's Join() function.
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Sanjib Pradhan
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Nice Idea!