Combining Data based on the same unique indentifier

Dmn9

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Hey everyone hope that you are doing well. I have a pickle of an issue with excel and i was hoping someone could shed some light on the subject for me.
What's troubling me is that i have a file that contains unique identifiers for everyone at my company in column A. I also in column B the degree they received. With people with multiple degrees it gives them multiple rows, with one row one per degree. So what i end up with are 6 different rows for the same person. Is there a quick and easy formula that can combine the degrees altogether into one cell so that i dont have 6 different rows for the same person?

Example)
12345 Dave BA
12345 Dave MS
12345 Dave PHD

What i would like it to look like

12345 Dave BA MS PHD

I've tried the vlookup function but it seems to continuously return the first value, so i end up with nothing in the end. Any help that can be provided would be appreciated. Thanks a million!
 

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I don't know of any formula that will do what you want. The easiest solution I can think of is a macro to loop through the data and append the degree to the first record if it finds anyone with more than one degree.
 
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