You can combine or merge text from two or more cells into one cell. For example, if you have one cell in your worksheet with a person’s first name and one cell with their last name, you can combine the first and last names in a new cell. Click the cell where you want to put the combined text. Type =(. Click the cell that contains the first text you want to combine, such as a person’s first name. Type &” “& (a space enclosed in quotation marks). Click the next cell with the text that you want to combine, such as the person’s last name.