How to merge the cells in openoffice?

Question

How to merge two columns in open office? For example i have the following datas in cloumns as follows.

A1 10 | B1 10
A2 11 | B2 20
A3 12 | B3 30
A4 13 | B4 40

Is it possible to merge these two columns into one. So that i should get the output like you see below,

A1 1010
A2 1120
A3 1230
A4 1340

Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Solution

You can either use a formula in column C like =CONCATENATE(A1,B1) -- copy the resulting column and use edit > paste special to paste "numbers" and not "formulas" if you want to lock in results.

Or, you can select each pair of side by side cells (A1, B1) and merge them (format > merge cells...). You'll see a dialog ("Should the contents of hidden cells be merged into the first cell?") -- answer yes. If you just have four rows, that won't take long. If you've got quite a few rows, the formula option will be more efficient.

Comments

[Oli]

Nice one, Amanda!