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Darla Nice
Aug 15, 2018Copper Contributor
How to combine one character of a cell with text from another cell in Excel
We are trying to take the first letter of the first name in column A and combine it with the last name in column B. We need this to be in a formula form and not just using text to column or flash fi...
Philip West
Aug 15, 2018Iron Contributor
=left(A1,1) & B1
Darla Nice
Aug 16, 2018Copper Contributor
Thank you so much!
- Philip WestAug 16, 2018Iron Contributor
No problem, glad it worked :)
You might also have a look at right() and mid() they do similar things for the right and middle of a text string.