{"id":4763,"date":"2019-11-11T08:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:18:22","slug":"combine-text-with-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f3806bf2-b52b-4952-91cb-304c8615ce81\" href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Combine-Text-with-Formula.xlsx\">Combine-Text-with-Formula<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Combine-Text-with-Formula.xlsx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f3806bf2-b52b-4952-91cb-304c8615ce81\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Excel, you can combine text with numbers, formulas, dates, etc., and display it inside a single cell. There are a few ways you can do it in Excel. In this tutorial, I&#8217;ll show you how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combine text with numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An ampersand (&amp;)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To combine text with numbers inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/training\/formulas\/\">formula<\/a>, you can use the ampersand (&amp;) operator. This formula combines text, and <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/training\/relative-absolute-and-mixed-cell-references\/\">cell references<\/a> (text and numbers) and displays it as a string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>=A2&amp;\" \"&amp;B2&amp;\" is \"&amp;C2&amp;\" years old.\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can run this formula on multiple examples, to see how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png 554w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The CONCAT function<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use the <strong>CONCAT<\/strong> function (formerly <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/en\/functions\/concatenate\"><strong>CONCATENATE<\/strong><\/a>) instead of an ampersand to achieve the same result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>=CONCAT(A2,\" \",B2,\" is \",C2,\" years old.\")<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>CONCAT<\/strong>\nfunction looks a bit cleaner than the previous formula with an ampersand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combine text with dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use a formula where you combine text with a date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>=A2&amp;\" \"&amp;B2&amp;\" was born in \"&amp;YEAR(C2)&amp;\".\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/en\/functions\/year\"><strong>YEAR<\/strong><\/a> function takes a year from the date and displays the year of birth for these people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/formula-with-text-and-date.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/formula-with-text-and-date.png 595w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/formula-with-text-and-date-300x94.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Excel, you can combine text with numbers, formulas, dates, etc., and display it inside a single cell. There are a few ways&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[170,190],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Combine Text with Formula in Excel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the &quot;&amp;&quot; operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Combine Text with Formula in Excel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the &quot;&amp;&quot; operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tomasz Decker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tomasz Decker\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tomasz Decker\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42\"},\"headline\":\"Combine Text with Formula in Excel\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\",\"keywords\":[\"file\",\"pinterest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"formulas\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\",\"name\":\"Combine Text with Formula in Excel\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the \\\"&amp;\\\" operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png\",\"width\":554,\"height\":186},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Combine Text with Formula in Excel\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42\",\"name\":\"Tomasz Decker\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18cbe22837193574870ae40ba56bf712?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18cbe22837193574870ae40ba56bf712?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tomasz Decker\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"description\":\"Spreadsheet and Python enthusiast.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel","description":"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the \"&amp;\" operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel","og_description":"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the \"&amp;\" operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.","og_url":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/","article_published_time":"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png"}],"author":"Tomasz Decker","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tomasz Decker","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/"},"author":{"name":"Tomasz Decker","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42"},"headline":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel","datePublished":"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/"},"wordCount":167,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png","keywords":["file","pinterest"],"articleSection":["formulas"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/","url":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/","name":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png","datePublished":"2019-11-11T08:52:50+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-29T14:18:22+00:00","description":"Learn how to combine text with numbers, dates or formulas in Excel using the \"&amp;\" operator and the CONCAT function. Download the tutorial file.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/combine-text-using-ampersand.png","width":554,"height":186},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/formulas\/combine-text-with-formula\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Combine Text with Formula in Excel"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#website","url":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/","name":"","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/41b0b6996aaa4c4127f86f3d24452d42","name":"Tomasz Decker","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18cbe22837193574870ae40ba56bf712?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18cbe22837193574870ae40ba56bf712?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tomasz Decker"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"description":"Spreadsheet and Python enthusiast."}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13643,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}