CONCATENATE Function in Excel: The Old Way to Join Text

⏱ 1 min readUpdated 28 September 2026

TextLevel: BeginnerAvailable in: Excel 2007+

In this article
  1. Syntax
  2. Examples
  3. Example 1
  4. Example 2
  5. Related functions

CONCATENATE joins text pieces. It still works for compatibility, but it cannot take a range — CONCAT and TEXTJOIN replaced it.

Syntax

=CONCATENATE(text1, [text2], ...)
Argument What it means
text1… Single cells or text, not ranges.

Examples

Example 1

=CONCATENATE(B2, " ", C2)

First and last name.

Example 2

=B2&" "&C2

The same with the & operator — shorter.

CONCAT · TEXTJOIN

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