{"id":2132,"date":"2021-10-27T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=2132"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:11:57","slug":"solved-combining-partial-text-from-2-or-more-cells-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/combining-partial-text-from-2-or-more-cells-in-excel\/19177.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Combining Partial Text From 2 Or More Cells In Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently trying to make a spreadsheet where I assign a ID to every set of data which I have. The ID is the first 5 letters of the last name followed by the first 2 letters of the first name and a two digit number (usually 01 but can differ in order to account for duplicates). I was wondering if there was some sort of a shortcut I could use to do this instead of manually entering every single one. Below is an example of what I&#8217;m trying to do:<\/p>\n<p>Last Name First Name ID<br \/>\nJohnson Michael johnsmi01<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":5},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}