The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text ...

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.