Prepend cells with certain text in Excel

Question

I want to take some of my cells that look like this:

PETROLIA ONTARIO CANADA NON1RO,              
VANCOUVER BC V5L3B1,              
ONTARIO CANADA LOR2C0,              
DN58BY ENGLAND,              
DN58BY ENGLAND,              

and change them into this:

(intl) PETROLIA ONTARIO CANADA NON1RO,              
(intl) VANCOUVER BC V5L3B1,              
(intl) ONTARIO CANADA LOR2C0,              
(intl) DN58BY ENGLAND,              
(intl) DN58BY ENGLAND,        

Is there an easy way to do that?

Answer 1

use the CONCATENATE formula. the below example assumes your first value is in cell A1.

=CONCATENATE("(intl) ", A1)

Answer 2

If the above data is in cells A1-A5, you can get the desired result if you put the following in cell B1:

=CONCATENATE("(intl) ", A1)

and copy-paste it to B2-B5

Answer 3

I think using the concatenate function requires unnecessary typing. Just use the ampersand sign to concatenate values:

="(intl) " & A1

I think that's easier.