XL98: Visual Basic Macro to Concatenate Columns of Data

ID: Q199638

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Visual Basic for Applications macro that you can use to concatenate the data in two adjacent columns and display the result in the column to the right of the data.

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure


    Sub ConcatColumns()

      Do While ActiveCell <> ""  'Loops until the active cell is blank.

         'The "&" must have a space on both sides or it will be
         'treated as a variable type of long integer.

         ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).FormulaR1C1 = _
            ActiveCell.Offset(0, -1) & " " & ActiveCell.Offset(0, 0)

         ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
      Loop

   End Sub

NOTE: You can replace the statement


ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).FormulaR1C1

with the statement:


ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Formula

They can be used with equal success if you are using text and numbers only (not formulas). The R1C1 used at the end of the first statement refers to row one, column one and is the form used in examples in Help.

To Use the Macro in Microsoft Excel 98

Open the workbook that contains the data.

Press OPTION+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.

Click Module on the Insert menu to insert a module. Type the macro above in the module's code window.

Click Close and Return to Microsoft Excel on the File menu.

Select the worksheet that contains the data that you want to concatenate.

Click the top cell in the right-hand column of data that you want to concatenate. For example, if cells A1:A100 and B1:B100 contain data, click cell B1.

Point to Macros on the Tools menu and click Macro. Select the ConcatColumns macro, and click Run.

REFERENCES

For more information about concatenating text, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type Concatenate, click Search, and then click to view "& Operator."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

For more information about running sample code, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Macro Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Additional query words: XL98 vba

Keywords : kbdta OffVBA
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbhowto