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Excel no longer accepting a combine cells command?
Dear Community,
I have a very large file in which I have entered dates in three columns (day month and year) I am attempting to turn these into ISO weeks. Two days ago I used the formula suggested to combine cells and then added a / to replace the spaces and then used a small macro to generate iso week numbers but the program crashed when I attempted to then sort and copy the weekly means (on numbers of mosquitoes) and stupidly not having saved the file as I went along I lost it all. Today I have tried again using the =Cell&" "Cell&" " Cell formula and keep getting an error message. I have made sure that all the cells are seen as numbers etc but still get the error message. It worked 2 days ago. What am I doing wrong? Thank you for any help
Hi jdcharlwood,
You made it wrong. You have to write for example:
A2&" "&B2
but you can also check out the official documentation, where it's explained again:
Best regards,
Schnittlauch"First, No system is safe. Second, Aim for the impossible. Third no Backup, no Mercy" - Schnittlauch
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3 Replies
- jdcharlwoodCopper Contributor
Many thanks. I managed to concatenate the data. My apologies for using your time - I hope that I can still count on your help in future. My best wishes, Derek jdcharlwood
- SchnittlauchIron Contributor
Hi jdcharlwood,
You made it wrong. You have to write for example:
A2&" "&B2
but you can also check out the official documentation, where it's explained again:
Best regards,
Schnittlauch"First, No system is safe. Second, Aim for the impossible. Third no Backup, no Mercy" - Schnittlauch
My answer helped you? Don't forget to leave a like. Also mark the answer as solved when your problem is solved. 🙂
- Riny_van_EekelenPlatinum Contributor