Excel CONCAT Function
Summary
The Excel CONCAT function concatenates (joins) values supplied as references or constants. Unlike the CONCATENATE function (which CONCAT replaces), CONCAT allows you to supply a range of cells to join, in addition to individual cell references.
Purpose
Join text values without delimiter
Return value
Result of concatenated text
Syntax
=CONCAT (text1, [text2], ...)
Arguments
- text1 - First text value, cell reference, or range.
- text2 - [optional] Second text value, cell reference, or range.
Usage notes
CONCAT is a new function, available in Office 365 and Excel 2019.
The CONCAT function concatenates (joins) values supplied as references or constants. Unlike the CONCATENATE function (which CONCAT replaces), CONCAT allows you to supply a range of cells to join, in addition to individual cell references.
If you need to join many values with a common delimiter, see the TEXTJOIN function.
Notes
- CONCAT can accept ranges in addition to individual cells
- To concatenate manually, use the concatenation operator (&)
- The CONCAT function also provides no options for delimiters or empty values.
- Numbers provided to CONCAT will be converted to text values during concatenation.
CONCAT formula examples
We want to count how often items in columns B, C, and D appear together. For example, how often A appears with C, B appears with F, G appears with D, and so on. This would seem like a perfect use of COUNTIFS, but if we...
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