Join lists with TEXTJOIN

Join a whole row or column into one cell with a separator of your choice, and skip the empty cells, with TEXTJOIN.

Confident · 9 min · 8 steps

In this lesson

  • ignore_empty: TRUE skips empty cells. FALSE keeps them, so separators pile up (", , ").
  • Common delimiters: ", " for a list of names, "; " for email addresses, " " for words, "" for nothing at all.
  • A block is read row by row.

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Remove duplicates

Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.

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Remove duplicates

Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.

Confident · 9 min · Free, with no sign-up

Do the free lesson on your computer.

Send yourself the link and open it on a laptop or desktop.

On your computer, go tolearnford.com/go/BV7C