$20 USD - Copy data from many columns into one cell, into specific positions.

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Hiya, this seems to do the trick for a formula to hit the markings you mentioned:
=$A3 & REPT(" ",9-LEN($A3)) & $B3 & REPT(" ", 14-LEN($B3)) & $C3 & REPT(" ",14-LEN($C3)) & $D3 & REPT(" ", 43-LEN($D3)) & $K3 & REPT(" ", 4-LEN($K3)) & $L3

If you for some reason you think that the values will be WIDER (number of characters) than you are expecting in the given column, for example someone entered 10 characters into Column A, instead of 9, then the formula will return #Value, which seems like it would be correct (i.e. something you want to manually investigate). However - if you want to allow "bad incoming data" then you have two choices as follows:
1. Truncate the value in the column to the specified or allowable data format width - this formula will do that, but it might be dangerous for things like Bid Price/Ask price getting truncated. This one is a little messy.
=LEFT($A3,9) & REPT(" ",MAX(0,9-LEN($A3))) & LEFT($B3,14) & REPT(" ", MAX(0,14-LEN($B3))) & LEFT($C3,14) & REPT(" ",MAX(0,14-LEN($C3))) & LEFT($D3,43) & REPT(" ", MAX(0,43-LEN($D3))) & LEFT($K3,4) & REPT(" ",MAX(0, 4-LEN($K3))) & LEFT($L3,4)

2. Accept / allow more characters than are allowed in the data format and shove everything else to the right, then this formula will allow this. This might "break" your downstream use of the resulting cell data, as it may break your data format rules
=$A3 & REPT(" ",MAX(0,9-LEN($A3))) & $B3 & REPT(" ", MAX(0,14-LEN($B3))) & $C3 & REPT(" ", MAX(0,14-LEN($C3))) & $D3 & REPT(" ", MAX(0,43-LEN($D3))) & $K3 & REPT(" ", MAX(0,4-LEN($K3))) & $L3

The VBA implementation and equivalent of the very first formula above can be done in a custom function that you call from Excel (assumes the data is in good order, and ignores character width issues I mention above))

Public Function My_Concat(r As Range) As String


If r Is Nothing Then Exit Function
on error resume next


My_Concat = r.Cells(1, 1) & Space(9 - Len(r.Cells(1, 1))) & _
            r.Cells(1, 2) & Space(14 - Len(r.Cells(1, 2))) & _
            r.Cells(1, 3) & Space(14 - Len(r.Cells(1, 3))) & _
            r.Cells(1, 4) & Space(43 - Len(r.Cells(1, 4))) & _
            r.Cells(1, 11) & Space(4 - Len(r.Cells(1, 11))) & _
            r.Cells(1, 12)
    
End Function

You would call it thus from a cell, pointing at the range of cells that needs to be concatenated:
=My_Concat(A3:L3)

If needed I can implement into a traditional Macro too that you call from the Macro menu, but to be honest, the Function is far cleaner

Ger

Received - thank you so much for the quick payment. Please shout back if any problems and I will look into it.

Gerard