What is CONCATENATE in Excel

The CONCATENATE function in Excel is used to combine text from different cells or constants into a single string of text. This can be useful when you need to assemble multiple pieces of information together into a single cell.

Each cell represents the text you want to combine. The cells can contain text, numbers, or formulas that return text or numbers. The CONCATENATE function ignores any non-text values, such as error values or empty cells.

=CONCATENATE(cell1, cell2, …, celln)

Here is an example:

Suppose you have the following text in three different cells:

A1: “Hello”
B1: ” “
C1: “World”

If you use the CONCATENATE function in cell D1 like this:

=CONCATENATE(A1, B1, C1)

The result in cell D1 will be: “Hello World”. The function concatenates the text from cells A1, B1, and C1 to create a single string of text.

You can also use constants as arguments to the CONCATENATE function. For example, if you want to combine the text in cells A1 and B1 with a comma and the number 42, you can use the following formula in cell D1:

=CONCATENATE(A1, “, “, B1, “, and the number “, 42)

This will give you the result: “Hello, World, and the number 42” in cell D1.

Keep in mind that if any of the arguments are non-text values, such as numbers or error values, they will be ignored in the resulting string. For example, if cell B1 contains the number 42, the formula =CONCATENATE(A1, B1, C1) will still result in the same string: “Hello World”.

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