concatenate function (Excel 97)

[Bill Groenewoud]

I am attempting to join several
text items into a single text type
item. It seems that the concatenate
function should do what I want but
when I follow the directions from
Excel help I get no results--just the
typing. For example I have the text
string "FL02" in cell b1, the text string
"Lake" in b2 and the number "12345"
in cell b3. I would like to combine
these cells to get the result
FL02Lake12345 but cannot do so. Here is
how I stated the formula in cell b4:
concatenate(b1,b2,b3. Can anyone help me?
I am using Excel 97.

 

[Thomas]

=a1&b1&c1

 

[Dave]

-----Original Message-----
I am attempting to join several
text items into a single text type
item. It seems that the concatenate
function should do what I want but
when I follow the directions from
Excel help I get no results--just the
typing. For example I have the text
string "FL02" in cell b1, the text string
"Lake" in b2 and the number "12345"
in cell b3. I would like to combine
these cells to get the result
FL02Lake12345 but cannot do so. Here is
how I stated the formula in cell b4:
concatenate(b1,b2,b3. Can anyone help me?
I am using Excel 97.
.

Start the formula with an equals sign ' = '.
Alternatively, click the equal sign on your formula bar,
then click the CONCATENATE function and follow the wizard.
Hope that helps.
Dave