Concatenate

tickinin86

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Hi all

I'm wanting to concatenate data in cells based on an IF statement.

I've used the following formula =IF(A2<>A3,"-",CONCATENATE(B20,", ",B21))

Which works fine when there are 2 duplicate values in column A e.g. rows A25 and A26. But when there are 3 duplicate values e.g. A20, A21, A23 my formula fails me. NB: It is feasible, within this dataset, for there to be up to 5 duplicate values in column A.

Any help appreciated.





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