Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

At 18:01 28/01/2015 -0800, Mark Howe wrote:
> Can you give me an example of a concatenation formula for a column 
> of text merged with a column of numbers?
> The resulting column would have the text and number in one cell.

You can concatenate values using the CONCATENATE() function or - more 
easily - using the & operator. I'm guessing that you might want an 
intervening blank between your text and the number, so you need something like
=CONCATENATE(A1;" ";B1)
or just
=A1&" "&B1

This works equally with numbers, which are naturally converted to 
text on the fly. But remember that the number stored in a cell is not 
necessarily what you can see: this is also influenced by the cell 
formatting. The cell formatting of the number is not respected by the 
automatic conversion, which instead uses the full expression of the 
stored (or calculated) value. So you may instead wish to control this 
conversion using the TEXT() function, e.g.
=A1&" "&TEXT(B1;"0.000")
The format codes used in the TEXT() function are the same as you use 
(and can see) in the "Format code" box of the Format Cells dialogue.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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