In earlier Excel versions, please use the CONCATENATE function or the "&" operator instead. TEXTJOIN is a new function, which is only available in Excel 2019 - Excel 365.To effectively use TEXTJOIN in your worksheets, there are a few important points to take notice of: With Excel TEXTJOIN, you specify the delimiter just once in the first argument, and supply a range of cells for the third argument: With the CONCATENATE function, you'd need to specify each cell individually and put a delimiter (", ") after each reference, which might be bothersome when merging the contents of many cells: A maximum of 252 text arguments are allowed, including text1.Īs an example, let's combine address parts from cells B2, C2 and D2 together into one cell, separating the values with a comma and a space: Text2, … (optional) - additional text values to be joined together.Can be supplied as a text string, a reference to a cell containing a string, or array of strings such as a range of cells. Text1 (required) - first value to join.FALSE - include empty cells in the resulting string.Ignore_empty (required) - Determines whether to ignore empty cells or not:.A number supplied as a delimiter is treated as text. Usually, it is supplied as a text string enclosed in double quotes or a reference to a cell containing a text string. Delimiter (required) - is a separator between each text value that you combine.TEXTJOIN(delimiter, ignore_empty, text1,, …) The syntax of the TEXTJOIN function is as follows: The function is available in Excel for Office 365, Excel 2021, and Excel 2019. It can either ignore or include empty cells in the result. TEXTJOIN in Excel merges text strings from multiple cells or ranges and separates the combined values with any delimiter that you specify. Lookup and return multiple matches in comma separated list.TEXTJOIN IF to conditionally merge cell contents.With the introduction of TEXTJOIN, it seems like a more powerful alternative has appeared, which enables you to join text in a more flexible manner including any delimiter in between. Until recently, there were two prevalent methods to merge cell contents in Excel: the concatenation operator and CONCATENATE function.
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The tutorial shows how to use the TEXTJOIN function to merge text in Excel with practical examples.