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    CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    Hi,

    I’m trying to CONCATENATE a sentence in cell w58, a date in w57 and then another sentence in w59. If I do =CONCATENATE(W58&TEXT(C18," mmmm d, yyyy")) I can get the first sentence and the date, I can’t figure out how to add that third string of text

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    W57 March 1, 2014
    W58 hello, today is
    W59 I will be in the office all day

    Can anyone help?

    Dave

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    Re: CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    You don't always have to spell out your concatenation. The & sign does the exact same thing between expressions.

    =W58 & TEXT(C18," mmmm d, yyyy") & " " & W59


    Notice, I just manually concatenated a " " in between strings to add a space so it's not all jammed together.
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    Re: CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    =W58&TEXT(C18," mmmm d, yyyy ") &W59
    You have the choice of using & or concatenate
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    Re: CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    With the example given, the Concatenate function can be used like this......

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    Re: CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    that did it, thank you all :-)

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    Re: CONCATENATE question about text, date, test

    You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback.

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