Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Combining Columns.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 7, 2019)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
There may be times when you have a need to concatenate cells together. For instance, you may have information in three columns, but you want it combined together into the first column of each row. The following macro, StuffTogether, will do just that. It examines the range of cells you select, and then moves everything from each cell in a row into the first cell of the row.
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here:
Sub StuffTogether()
Dim FirstCol As Integer, FirstRow As Integer
Dim ColCount As Integer, RowCount As Integer
Dim ThisCol As Integer, ThisRow As Integer
Dim J As Integer, K As Integer
Dim MyText As String
FirstCol = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Column
FirstRow = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Row
ColCount = ActiveWindow.Selection.Columns.Count
RowCount = ActiveWindow.Selection.Rows.Count
For J = 1 To RowCount
ThisRow = FirstRow + J - 1
MyText = ""
For K = 1 To ColCount
ThisCol = FirstCol + K - 1
MyText = MyText & Cells(ThisRow, ThisCol).Text & " "
Cells(ThisRow, ThisCol).Value = ""
Next K
MyText = Trim(MyText)
Cells(ThisRow, FirstCol).Value = MyText
Next J
End Sub
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