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if you have a data set that has a column for folks first name and a column for their last name and you want to put it together in the same cell with just their first name initial a dot a space and then their last name you can do that using the concatenate and the left function I'm going to show you how to do that right now so the first thing we do is write equals concatenate because we're gonna bring in the contents from two separate cells and bring it into one and that's what concatenate means in excel language and then the first bit of text that we want to bring in is just the first initial of the first name so we do that by using left and we're looking the text that we're using is the first name text and we only want the first letter so we put one in there meanwhile if I were to put two it would return ji it would produce the first two letters starting from the left but we only want the first one so we put one now to put the dot in the space we put a comma after the first part of the concatenate to let it know we're starting another bit of text and for this text we open up a quote because we're going to type it in for excel we're not going to give it a cell to concatenate and we're going to put a space after that dot so that there's a space after the dot and the last name we're gonna put a comma and then we're going to give Excel the last name so it knows what to put in after the dot and the space and we hit enter and we see we get first name dot space last name and we drag this down we see it does it throughout the entire record so that is the conjunction of the concatenate function and the left function to produce another output all together in new cell thanks a lot for watching I hope this helps