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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / November 2007Concatenation problem
I have a big table preparing for a community telephone directory with these entries: =(CONCATENATE(N6377,", ",L6377," ",M6377," & ",O6377," ",P6377," ",Q6377)) L M N O P Q Result Thomas C Zwart Donna M Zwart Zwart, Thomas C & Donna M Zwart Lou E Zwick Zwick, Lou E & Morton Zwick Marla Izaks Zwick, Morton & Marla Izaks Saul Zwirn Zwirn, Saul & Two questions, 1. Line one, how do I eliminate the second occurence of the Surname "Zwart"? 2. Line two, how do I eliminate the "&"? You don't need to use CONCATENATE (which I hate as a function), you can concatenate text together directly using ampersands (&) to link the text. This also allows you to have more complicated constructions (as in the formula that follows). Try out this formula.... =IF(L5="","",N5&", "&L5&IF(M5="",""," ")&M5&IF(O5="",""," & "&O5&IF(P5="",""," ")&P5&IF(Q5=N5,""," "&Q5))) which also cleans up the extra blank spaces you had when no middle initial existed and allows you to copy it down through cells that have no names in them (nothing is displayed rather than the commas and ampersand your formula was showing). By the way, for ease of testing, I created the formula from Row 5... change the 5's to what ever row you want to start using the formula on and then copy it down as far as you want to. Rick >I have a big table preparing for a community telephone directory with these >entries: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > "Zwart"? > 2. Line two, how do I eliminate the "&"? Rick, It worked great! I've been trying to use a similar deal on the phone numbers. The phone numbers below were given to me as 7025691231, blank, 8145555555, 7025211231, blank, 2131231233. I now have them in three columns as shown under C, D, & E. C D E Result 569 1231 569-1231 814 555 5555 (814) 555-5555 521 1231 521-1231 213 123 1233 (213) 123-1233 All of this for volunteer work... Thanks again! > You don't need to use CONCATENATE (which I hate as a function), you can > concatenate text together directly using ampersands (&) to link the text. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> "Zwart"? >> 2. Line two, how do I eliminate the "&"?
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