Question

I have headings separated onto different rows. Instead of having a heading that makes sense and is unique like “Litres of water dumped on Tuesday” I have:

Litres of
water
dumped
on Tuesday

separated across 4 rows.

I want to know how much water was dumped on Tuesday and there are multiple columns that say each of “Litres of”, “water”, “dumped” and “on Tuesday”. Is there an excel function that will help me do this? Do I need to go use macros?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you need the entire header to be in a single cell, as opposed to split over four rows in four parts that have no useful meaning individually.

You can do this using Excel’s CONCATENATE function or, equivalently, the more succint & operator. Example:

Now you have your unique header and you can do whatever you want with it.