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Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if any

  1. 05-11-2013, 07:14 PM #1
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    Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if any

    So I have six columns containing email addresses of different people connected to the respective rows. Many of the cells are empty. I need to combine them into a single cell for the user to copy-and-paste them all into the cc: list of an email message.

    So I drafted the following to concatenate them with a semi-colon & space between each. Then, if it ends in a semi-colon & space because of the final column being null, the semi-colon & space are trimmed off.

    It works, but is big and inelegant. Anyone have any better thoughts?

    =IF(RIGHT(CONCATENATE(IF(A3<>"",CONCATENATE(A3,"; "),""),IF(B3<>"",CONCATENATE(B3,"; "),""),IF(C3<>"",CONCATENATE(C3,"; "),""),IF(D3<>"",CONCATENATE(D3,"; "),""),IF(E3<>"",CONCATENATE(E3,"; "),""),IF(F3<>"",F3,"")),2)="; ",LEFT((CONCATENATE(IF(A3<>"",CONCATENATE(A3,"; "),""),IF(B3<>"",CONCATENATE(B3,"; "),""),IF(C3<>"",CONCATENATE(C3,"; "),""),IF(D3<>"",CONCATENATE(D3,"; "),""),IF(E3<>"",CONCATENATE(E3,"; "),""),IF(F3<>"",F3,""))),LEN(CONCATENATE(IF(A3<>"",CONCATENATE(A3,"; "),""),IF(B3<>"",CONCATENATE(B3,"; "),""),IF(C3<>"",CONCATENATE(C3,"; "),""),IF(D3<>"",CONCATENATE(D3,"; "),""),IF(E3<>"",CONCATENATE(E3,"; "),""),IF(F3<>"",F3,"")))-2),CONCATENATE(IF(A3<>"",CONCATENATE(A3,"; "),""),IF(B3<>"",CONCATENATE(B3,"; "),""),IF(C3<>"",CONCATENATE(C3,"; "),""),IF(D3<>"",CONCATENATE(D3,"; "),""),IF(E3<>"",CONCATENATE(E3,"; "),""),IF(F3<>"",F3,"")))</p>

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    Re: Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if

    for a start, I prefer to use & instead of concatenate - it shortens the forumla and the & makes it easer to deterimine where 1 part ends and the next 1 starts (rather than ",")
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    Re: Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if

    Try this instead?

    =if(a3="","",a3)&if(b3="","","; "&b3)&if(c3="","","; "&c3)&if(d3="","","; "&d3)&if(e3="","","; "&e3)&if(f3="","","; "&f3)
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    Re: Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if

    since email address don't have spaces you can use
    =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1&" "&B1&" "&C1&" "&D1&" "&E1&" "&F1)," ","; ")
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    Re: Concatenate Possibly null cells & delimiting semicolon, and delete ending semicolon if

    Are you open to using a VBA function for this?

    Copy the code below and paste it into a general module:

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    Then, you'd use it like this:

    =concatall(A3:F3,"; ")
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