Combine Cells and Separate Data with Comma

[ronicaroman]

I came up with a formula, but that would take longer then doing this by hand. Perhaps someone can help me write a macro?? Please

A1: 54684
A2: 58321
A3: 38743
A4: 25786

The result would look as such:

A5: 54684,58321,38743,25786

Keep in mind, in reality there would be hundreds of line items

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[mumps]

In your example you had 4 rows of data and the result was in the 5th row. Are you saying that if you had 200 rows of data you would want them all combined in the cell in row 201?

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I came up with a formula, but that would take longer then doing this by hand. Perhaps someone can help me write a macro?? Please

A1: 54684
A2: 58321
A3: 38743
A4: 25786

The result would look as such:

A5: 54684,58321,38743,25786

Keep in mind, in reality there would be hundreds of line items

I think maybe a UDF (user defined function) might be better for you (I can make it a macro if you really want that)...

Function Combined(Rng As Range) As String
  Combined = Join(Application.Transpose(Rng), ",")
End Function

HOW TO INSTALL UDFs
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If you are new to UDFs, they are easy to install and use. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. That's it.... you are done. You can now use Combined just like it was a built-in Excel function. For example,

=Combined(A1:A4)

If you are using XL2007 or above, make sure you save your file as an "Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (*.xlsm) and answer the "do you want to enable macros" question as "yes" or "OK" (depending on the button label for your version of Excel) the next time you open your workbook.