How to use the 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.

Version

Excel 2019

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.

Related functions

Excel CONCATENATE Function

The Excel CONCATENATE function concatenates (joins) join up to 30 text items together and returns the result as text. The CONCAT function replaces CONCATENATE in newer versions of Excel.

Excel TEXTJOIN Function

The Excel TEXTJOIN function concatenates (joins) values with a given delimiter. Unlike the CONCAT function, TEXTJOIN allows you to supply a range of cells, and has a setting to ignore empty values.