Group multiple columns into one

sbawnh

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Office Version
  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Good morning!
I'm interested in getting a single cell that lists a group of dates originating from multiple columns.

Imagine column A is ID's, Imagine columns(B:F) are dates relating to the ID.

I want to put the dates all together in one cell, but using this formula, if there are blanks, I will have extra Commas.

How else could I do this?

Thank you!

=TEXT(B2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(C2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(D2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(E2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(F2,"mm/dd/yyyy")

I tried ideas of concatenation, but I don't like where it's going. Can I use REPT with text, based on count of non-blanks?

=CONCATENATE(IF(B2="","",(TEXT(B2,"mm/dd/yyyy")))&", "&IF(C2="","",TEXT(C2,"mm/dd/yyyy"))) Etc..
 
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I got somewhere! I just have a single end comma now!

=LEFT(TEXT(B2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(C2,"mm/dd/yyyy")[ETC...],COUNT(B2:F2)*12)

02/01/2019, 03/01/2019,
 
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I'm done! Sorry. You can delete or if it's interesting, thank you for helping if you've seen this.

=LEFT(TEXT(B2,"mm/dd/yyyy")&", "&TEXT(C2,"mm/dd/yyyy")
[ETC...],COUNT(B2:F2)*12),COUNT(S2:Y2)*12-2)
 
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