TEXT FUNCTIONS
LEN
Gives you the length of a text string or the number of
characters in a cell.
This can be applied to numbers and text.
CONCATENATE
Allows you to combine two or more text strings from
different cells together into one cell. E.g. If you have a
spreadsheets with columns for Name, Surname and
Title, all three can be joined together into one cell e.g.
Spaces
It would be better to have spaces between the Title,
Name and Surname. This is done by adding inverted
commas with a space between e.g. ““
Adding text to Concatenate
Text not found in a cell can also be added using
Concatenate. The text must be typed in inverted
commas.
Using the &
There are two ways of using Concatenate. The first
we’ve discussed =CONCATENATE and the 2nd way is
using the & sign to join cells. E.g.
JOINING TEXT FUNCTIONS
Concatenate can also join various Text functions
together like Right, Left, Mid Etc.
In the example below, we can create a log in by
joining the first name with the first 6 digits of the ID
number
ADDING UPPER OR LOWER
When using upper or lower, the upper or lower
needs to come before the concatenate. E.g.
=UPPER(CONCATENATE(B2,C2)