When working with text in Excel its often useful to combine the text from two or more cells into a single cell. This can be done with a couple of different methods Method 1 - using the Concatenate function I've previously blogged about the basics of this function in this post . Here we'll look at the function in a bit more detail and some common use cases. Almost all people I've helped with Excel aren't familiar with the word 'Concatenate', its definition is "link (things) together in a chain or series." which is exactly what the concatenate function does. Its simplest use case would be, = Concatenate (A1, A2) This would combine the values in A1 and A2 into a single value which would be displayed in the cell in which the function is placed, lets look at a real example Here we have a list of first names and last names and we'd like to combine them into another column titled 'Full Name'. We'll begin by using the Concatenate function and