In Excel 2019 and later, theCONCAT functionandTEXTJOIN functionare better, more flexible alternatives.

The CONCATENATE function accepts multipleargumentscalledtext1,text2,text3, etc.

up to 30 total.

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Values may be supplied as cell references, and hard-coded text strings.

Only the first argument is required, and values are concatenated in the order they appear.

To concatenate many values with a common delimiter, see theTEXTJOIN function.

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TEXTJOIN can do everything CONCAT can do, but can also accept a delimiter and optionally ignore empty values.

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Excel CONCAT function

Excel TEXTJOIN function