{"id":93,"date":"2023-04-13T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/?p=93"},"modified":"2023-04-13T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:12:38","slug":"add-prefix-or-suffix-to-cells-in-microsoft-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/2023\/04\/13\/add-prefix-or-suffix-to-cells-in-microsoft-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Add prefix or suffix to cells in Microsoft Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can add prefix or suffix to cells in Microsoft Excel using two simple functions\/methods <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.\u00a0 The first method is to use the ampersand &amp; operator to concatenate the cell with the desired text as shown below<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x229.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Press the enter key and you have you text successfully concatenated as shown below<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1.png 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hover on the cell B2 at the bottom right till the cursor changes to a + sign, drag the cursor to B6 and you will have all names concatenated as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-2-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-2.png 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>2. The second option is to use the concatenate function in Microsoft Excel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-3-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-3-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-3-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-3.png 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Press the enter key, hover on the cell till it changes to a plus sign as above and drag to A6 to complete the entire data as shown below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this short tutorial was helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can add prefix or suffix to cells in Microsoft Excel using two simple functions\/methods 1.\u00a0 The first method is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-excel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4xdimension.net\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}