How to Concatenate Text String with Line Breaks
Suppose you need to merge text strings with the line breaks, whch is particularly useful for combining mailing addresses form different columns. Excel’s CONCATENATE function does not directly allow to isnert a line break as you would do with regular characters. You can instead use to CHAR function to provide the corressponding ASCII code for a line break.
- On windows, you can use CHAR(10) to represent a Line feed.
- On Mac, you can use CHAR(13) to represent a Carriage return.
For example, you have address components in columns A through C, and you want to combine them in Column D, with each part on a new line. The formula using the ampresand operator would look like this:
Syntax: text1 & CHAR(10) & text2 & CHAR(10) & text3….
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How to Use Concatenate in Excel
In Excel, When you work with data, it’s important to organize it in a way that meets your specific analysis needs. Sometimes, you may encounter situations where you need to split the content of a cell into separate cells or combine data from different columns into a single column. This is where string concatenation becomes a valuable tool. By merging text and data, you can accomplish various tasks, such as combining text with calculated values, merging parts of names and addresses, or formatting dates and times.
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