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Do you ever want to combine the contents of several cells into one cell? Say you have a worksheet of employee names, with first and last names in separate columns, but you want both names in the same column. Excel offers two different formula methods for doing just that. Watch the demo and see how to use a fast formula to save yourself lots of time and typing.

How to do it (text version):

• Combine the contents of multiple cells
• Combine first and last names
• Combine text and numbers
• Combine two or more columns by using a function
• CONCATENATE function

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