2 Ways To Combine Columns In Excel By Merging Cells

You can easily Combine columns in excel by merging cells. That means you can easily merge cells without loosing date. When you use “Merge&Center” option from context menu, you will lose data. When you want to Combine columns in excel without loosing data you need to use formula.

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How to Combine columns in excel

Here I am showing you two simple methods to Combine columns in excel by merging cells without loosing data. You can use any one of the methods.

Method 1

Combine columns in excel without space

Open your Excel sheet. Just see below excel sheet. It has three columns (A,B,C). I am going to combine these three columns in to one column (Column ‘E’).

• In above sheet real data starts from 2nd row (A2,B2,C2). You need to merge A2,B2 & C2 cells.
• Click on E2 cell. Type =A2&B2&C2 shows that in above screenshot.(If your data starts from 1st row, you need to replace ‘2’ with ‘1’)
• Press “Enter”. You will see result in E2 cell.
• Copy E2 cell and paste in remaining cells. Or click at right bottom of E2 cell, hold the left click of mouse and drag to select entire column. Immediately you will see result in entire column shows that in below screenshot.

From above picture, You can see that there is no space or any character between three words.

Combine columns in excel with space or special character

You can separate these three words with space or comma or dot or any other character.

• Use formula =A2&” “&B2&” “&C2 to separate words with space(there is a space between two colons and you can replace 2 with your corresponding row number).
• Use formula =A2&”,”&B2&”,”&C2 to separate words with comma.
• Use formula =A2&”.”&B2&”.”&C2 to separate words with dot.

Like wise you can use any character between two colons to separate words.

Method 2:

You can use another formula to merge cells in excel.

Open excel sheet. Select E2 cell.

• Type =CONCATENATE(A2,B2,C2) to merge cells without space.
• Type =CONCATENATE(A2,”,”,B2,”,”,C2) to separate words with comma.
• Type =CONCATENATE(A2,”.”,B2,”.”,C2) to separate words with dot.

Press “Enter”. You will see result shows that in below screenshot. Copy same formula to entire column.