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From: keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC)
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Subject: Re: excel CONCAT function?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 00:18:17 GMT
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Try
=a1&b1

to concatenate the contents of cells a1 and b1.

This *is* in the manual;  but to be fair, Excel comes with 
hundreds of pages of documentation, so it is sometimes easy
to miss an obvious answer.