How To Concatenate Cells If Same Value Exists in Another Column in Excel?

How to concatenate cells if same value exists in another column in Excel?
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As the left screenshot shown, suppsing you need

to concatenate the cells in the second column
based on the same value cells in the first column.
How can you achieve it?
In this article, we will introduce three methods to

hel you achieve it.
Concatenate cells if same value with formulas

and filter
Concatenate cells if same value with VBA code
Easily concatenate cells if same value with
Kutools for Excel "
! Concatenate Cells If Same Value With Formulas And Filter
With the below formulas, you can concatenate corresponding cell contents if another
column contains same value in Excel.
1. Select a blank cell besides the second column (here we select cell C2), enter
formula =IF(A2<>A1,B2,C1 & "," & B2) into the formula bar, and then press the Enter
key.
2. Then select cell C2, and drag the Fill Handle down to cells you need to
concatenate.
3. Enter formula =IF(A2<>A3,CONCATENATE(A2,",""",C2,""""),"") into cell D2, and

drag Fill Handle down to the rest cells.
4. Select cell D1, and click Data > Filter. See screenshot:
5. Click the drop-down arrow in cell D1, uncheck the (Blanks) box, and then click the
OK button.
You can see the cells are concatenated if the first column values are same.
Note: To use the above formulas successfully, the same values in column A must be
continuous.
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! Concatenate Cells If Same Value With VBA Code
Besides formula, in this section, we will show you how to use VBA code to
concatenate cells if same value.
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then
copy and paste below code into the Module window.
VBA code: concatenate cells if same values
1 Sub ConcatenateCellsIfSameValues()
2 Dim xCol As New Collection
3 Dim xSrc As Variant
4 Dim xRes() As Variant
5 Dim I As Long
6 Dim J As Long
7 Dim xRg As Range
8 xSrc = Range("A1", Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp)).Resiz
9 Set xRg = Range("D1")
10 On Error Resume Next
11 For I = 2 To UBound(xSrc)
12 xCol.Add xSrc(I, 1), TypeName(xSrc(I, 1)) & CStr(xSrc(I,
13 Next I
14 On Error GoTo 0
15 ReDim xRes(1 To xCol.Count + 1, 1 To 2)
16 xRes(1, 1) = "No"
17 xRes(1, 2) = "Combined Color"
18 For I = 1 To xCol.Count
19 xRes(I + 1, 1) = xCol(I)
20 For J = 2 To UBound(xSrc)
21 If xSrc(J, 1) = xRes(I + 1, 1) Then
Notes:
1. D1 in line Set xRg = Range("D1") means that the result will be placed in cell D1.
2. No and Combined Color in line xRes(1, 1) = "No" and xRes(1, 2) = "Combined

Color" are the headers of concatenated columns. You can change them as you need.
3. Press the F5 key to run the code, then you will get the concatenated results in
specified range.
! Easily Concatenate Cells If Same Value With Kutools For Excel

(Several Clicks)
If the above two methods are complicated for you, here we will show you the
Advanced Combine Rows utility of Kutools for Excel. You can easily concatenate
cells by comma, semicolon and so on if same values exist in another column.
Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly
(/download/kutools-for-excel.html).
1. Select the range with cells you need to concatenate, and then click Kutools >
Merge & Split > Advanced Combine Rows. See screenshot:
2. In the Advanced Combine Rows dialog box, you need to do as follows.
2.1) Select the column with same value you want to concatenate cells based on,
and then click the Primary Key button.
2.2) Select the column you want to concatenate the cells, click Combine button,
and then specify a separator from the context menu (here I specify Comma).
2.3) Click the OK button.
Now the cells are concatenated according to the primary key column.
If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to
download it (/download/kutools-for-excel.html), and then go to apply the
operation according above steps.
! Easily Concatenate Cells If Same Value With Kutools For Excel
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cathy postmus
about 6 years ago
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· #16504
value.html#comment-16504,0T
Can't seem to concatenate with more than 2 cells using formulas and
filters
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Geoffrey saya
about 4 years ago
(https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/3153-excel-concatenate-if-
· #20935
same-value.html#comment-20935,0T
How can i merge collums with the same names eg Column one reads
Kenya throughout and collumn 2 reads western, Nyanza( appearing
more than ten times) and column 3 three names of districts. I want to
get how mang districts do we have in every province but keep the
columns.
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crystal (/forum/profile/4614-crystal.html) $ Geoffrey saya
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about 4 years ago
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· #20936
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Dear Geoffrey,
Please try the Advanced Combine Rows utility we mentioned in

above method two. If you want to keep the columns, please make
a copy of the original range and do everything in the copied
range.
Specify the province column as Primary Key, set the Column 1 as

Keep 1st, and then set the district column as Calculate \ Count.
After that, you will get how many district you have in every
province.
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Marissa W
about 4 years ago
· #21720
The concatenate feature does not work. Combines all the rows into
one cell despite different keys.
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crystal (/forum/profile/4614-crystal.html) $ Marissa W
crystal.html)
about 4 years ago
· #21721
Dear Marissa,
Sorry I am not sure I got your question. There are three methods
in the article, which concatenate feature do you mean?
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RS
about 4 years ago
· #23817
I am so thankful to you for these formulas. Fantastic work!
Reply
Ram
about 4 years ago
· #25283
This is exactly what I needed...thank you
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Matt Carrington (/forum/profile/12212-travelermatt.html)
travelermatt.html)
about 3 years ago
· #26110
Using the VBA macro and getting great results, I have tried tweaking it
slightly for my needs but cant get it to work so I hope you can help.
Which bit do I change to make it concat a specific column, not the one
directly to the right of the xSrc f Range?
Thanks for your great work!
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Matt Carrington (/forum/profile/12212-travelermatt.html) $
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Matt Carrington (/forum/profile/12212-travelermatt.html)
about 3 years ago
· #26111
Or as a better option, if you had 3 columns instead of 2 and found

duplicates in column A (like your example) can you concat column
B into a cell and column C into a seperate cell? So if you had
columns of Number, Colour, Age, could you concat colour and
age into different columns upon finding duplicates in Number?
Hope that makes sense!
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James
about 3 years ago
· #26698
I use this VBA for lots of my spreadsheets and its great. But the
spreadsheets have become very large 50k+ rows and it doesnt seem
to be working any more. If I use it on 1000 rows it works fine but large
sets of data it cant seem to cope with. No errors just no results. Any
help would be appreciated.
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crystal (/forum/profile/4614-crystal.html) $ James
crystal.html)
about 3 years ago
· #26699
Hi James,
I tested the code as you mentioned, but it still works well in my
case even I set the rows to 1000l.
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Harry Vyvey (/forum/profile/18549-harryvyvey.html)
harryvyvey.html)
about 3 years ago
· #29669
Hi,
looks like 2 of your formulas are wrong :
fIFmA2n\A3,CONCATENATEmA2,",""",C2,""""),""). You need to change

"A2" to "D1". As you'll want to add the string to the previous cell.
same goes for this formula :
fIFmA2n\A1,B2,C1 & "," & B2T s Change C1 to D1.
kind regards
Harry
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Jade (/forum/profile/18954-jadee.html)
jadee.html)
about 2 years ago
· #30225
Hi, first of all thanks for creating this resource. I have been trying to
figure this out for a couple of hours and I'm stuck. I'm using your
'concatenate cells if same value' but my script is looking at column "D"
instead of "A. I can't figure out how to get it to use a different column
for the data besides the one right next to it. In my cases I want it to
look at column "D" to see if the value is the same and if so, it will grab
the data from column "H" and put that data from column "H' into a cell
in column "J". How do I switch this to use column "H" for the data? Thx
Sub ConcatenateCellsIfSameValues()
Dim xCol As New Collection
Dim xSrc As Variant
Dim xRes() As Variant
Dim I As Long
Dim J As Long
Dim xRg As Range
xSrc f Range("D1", Cells(Rows.Count, "D").End(xlUp)).Resize(, 2)
Set xRg f Range("J1")
On Error Resume Next
For I f 2 To UBound(xSrc)
xCol.Add xSrc(I, 1), TypeName(xSrc(I, 1)T & CStr(xSrc(I, 1))
Next I
On Error GoTo 0
ReDim xRes(1 To xCol.Count l 1, 1 To 2T
xRes(1, 1) = "No"
xRes(1, 2) = "Products"
For I f 1 To xCol.Count
xRes(I l 1, 1T f xCol(I)
For J f 2 To UBound(xSrc)
If xSrc(J, 1) = xRes(I l 1, 1T Then
xRes(I l 1, 2T f xRes(I l 1, 2T & vbCrLf & xSrc(J, 2)
End If
Next J
xRes(I l 1, 2T f Mid(xRes(I l 1, 2T, 2T
Next I
Set xRg = xRg.Resize(UBound(xRes, 1T, UBound(xRes, 2TT
xRg.NumberFormat = "@"
xRg = xRes
xRg.EntireColumn.AutoFit
End Sub
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mcaldw (/forum/profile/30029-mcaldw.html) $
mcaldw.html)Jade (/forum/profile/18954-jadee.html)
about 2 years ago
· #30226
"I can't figure out how to get it to use a different column for the
data besides the one right next to it. In my cases I want it to look
at column 'D' to see if the value is the same and if so, it will grab
the data from column 'H' and put that data from column 'H' into a
cell in column 'J'."
Did you ever figure this out?
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EZPD
about 2 years ago
· #32701
I just wanted to thank you. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but man did
it help me figure out what to do.
I have a table where the person's name was in column A, dates in

column B and the names of tools they use in the headers of columns
CsG . In each column there is a "Y" if they used that tool on that date
and blank if they did not. mFYIs the same person can be listed more
than once and may have used the same tool more than once) On a
separate (summary) page I wanted to list all tools each person used
within a date period, only listing each tool they used once, in the same
cell. On this page, the person's name was in column A, Types of tools
used in column B and the helper columns were in column GsK. Here's
what I got:
The first helper column mG2Ts
fIFmCOUNTIFSmTable7wPerson's Name],A2,Table7wScrew
Driver],"Y",Table7wDate],">="&1/1/20,Table7wDate],"
<="&3/31/20T,"Screw Driver","")
In the last helper column mK2Ts
fIFmCOUNTIFSmTable7wPerson's
Name],A2,Table7wHammer],"Y",Table7wDate],">="&1/1/20,Table7wDate],"
<="&3/31/20T,IFmJ2f"","Hammer",J2&"/"&"Hammer"),J2T
In B2 I just entered fK2
Thanks again and I hope this helps someone. EZPD
Reply
Kristin
about 8 months ago
· #36409
Hello, how would the VBA code be adjusted if I want to combine cells
in column M based on the duplicates in column A?
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crystal (/forum/profile/4614-crystal.html) $ Kristin
crystal.html)
about 7 months ago
· #36410
Hi Kristin,To combine cells in column M based on the duplicates in

column A, try the VBA below.In the code, O1 is the first cell to
output the results; M is the column you will combine based on the
duplicates in column A; A1 and A represent the first cell and the
column where the duplicates locate; No and Combine color is the
header of the columns after concatenating. You can change these
variables as needed.<div data-tag="code"\Sub
ConcatenateCellsIfSameValues()
'Updated by Extendoffice 20211105
Dim xCol As New Collection
Dim xSrc As Variant
Dim xSrcValue As Variant
Dim xRes() As Variant
Dim I As Long
Dim J As Long
Dim xRg As Range
Dim xResultAddress As String
Dim xMergeAddress As String
Dim xUp As Integer
xResultAddress = "O1" 'The cell to output the results

xMergeAddress = "M" 'The column you will combine based on
the duplicates in column A
xSrc f Range("A1", Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp)).Resize(, 1)

xUp f Range("A1", Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp)).Rows.Count
xSrcValue f Range(xMergeAddress & "1s" & xMergeAddress &
xUp)
Set xRg f Range(xResultAddress)

On Error Resume Next
For I f 2 To UBound(xSrc)
xCol.Add xSrc(I, 1), TypeName(xSrc(I, 1)T & CStr(xSrc(I, 1))
Next I
On Error GoTo 0
ReDim xRes(1 To xCol.Count l 1, 1 To 2T
xRes(1, 1) = "No"
xRes(1, 2) = "Combined Color"
For I f 1 To xCol.Count
xRes(I l 1, 1T f xCol(I)
For J f 2 To UBound(xSrc)
If xSrc(J, 1) = xRes(I l 1, 1T Then
xRes(I l 1, 2T f xRes(I l 1, 2T & ", " & xSrcValue(J, 1)
End If
Next J
xRes(I l 1, 2T f Mid(xRes(I l 1, 2T, 2T
Next I
Set xRg = xRg.Resize(UBound(xRes, 1T, UBound(xRes, 2TT
xRg.NumberFormat = "@"
xRg = xRes
xRg.EntireColumn.AutoFit
End Sub
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How To Concatenate Cells If Same Value Exists In

As the left screenshot shown, suppsing you need

In this article, we will introduce three methods to

Concatenate cells if same value with formulas

! Concatenate Cells If Same Value With Formulas And Filter

3. Enter formula =IF(A2<>A3,CONCATENATE(A2,",""",C2,""""),"") into cell D2, and

Easily combine cells in a column if same value exists in another column:

With Kutools for Excel's Advanced Combine Rows (/product/kutools-for-

shown. Download Kutools for Excel now! ( 30-day free trail)

! Concatenate Cells If Same Value With VBA Code

VBA code: concatenate cells if same values

2. No and Combined Color in line xRes(1, 1) = "No" and xRes(1, 2) = "Combined

! Easily Concatenate Cells If Same Value With Kutools For Excel

2. In the Advanced Combine Rows dialog box, you need to do as follows.

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Please try the Advanced Combine Rows utility we mentioned in

Specify the province column as Primary Key, set the Column 1 as

I am so thankful to you for these formulas. Fantastic work!

This is exactly what I needed...thank you

Thanks for your great work!

Or as a better option, if you had 3 columns instead of 2 and found

looks like 2 of your formulas are wrong :

fIFmA2n\A3,CONCATENATEmA2,",""",C2,""""),""). You need to change

same goes for this formula :

fIFmA2n\A1,B2,C1 & "," & B2T s Change C1 to D1.

Did you ever figure this out?

I have a table where the person's name was in column A, dates in

In B2 I just entered fK2

Thanks again and I hope this helps someone. EZPD

Hi Kristin,To combine cells in column M based on the duplicates in

xResultAddress = "O1" 'The cell to output the results

xSrc f Range("A1", Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp)).Resize(, 1)

Set xRg f Range(xResultAddress)

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