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Excel 2010 - Concatenate and then copy and paste the concatenated text (not the formula)

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Hello,

So I have Excel 2010 spreadsheet/workbook and 16000 rows of data.  I only want to pull about 200 of the rows but they're all over the place.

I was able to concatenate the 2 columns into a 3rd column for all 16000 rows with a quick "=A1&B1" dragged all the way down, and it displays what I want to copy!  But when I go to click on the cell it shows me the formula instead of the data.  How do I get it to copy the text and not the formula? 

Example:

column 1    column 2  column 3

junk    text    junktext

Red    Bull    RedBull

more   junk   morejunk

etc   etc    etcetc

when I click on RedBull it displays "=A2&B2", not RedBull

I would like to copy all instances of "RedBull" (more complicated data in the spreadsheet, just an example) and paste them into a new text file/word doc/excel spreadsheet.  anywhere where I can get just those few lines of text.

thanks in advance!

-Nick


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