Can't Concatenate Chart (Attached or Unattached) Text

Last reviewed: November 2, 1994
Article ID: Q42963

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0
Microsoft Excel for OS/2 versions 2.2, 2.21, and 3.0

It is impossible to use concatenation (&) in creating attached or unattached text in a chart. An example of a possible entry is as follows:

   =Sheet1.xls!$A$1

An example of an invalid entry is as follows:

   =Sheet1!$A$1&Sheet1!$B$1

Workaround

Do the concatenation in the spreadsheet first.

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory:
Additional words: 5.00 2.0 2.00 2.01 2.1 2.10 2.2 2.20 2.21 3.0
3.00 4.0 4.00

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Last reviewed: November 2, 1994
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