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Combining fields when some are sometimes empty

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Grateful to those in this community who helped me set up my family’s bookstore inventory. It’s going well and I often recommend Airtable to others.

So now I’m using this formula…

Title & " • " Author & " • " Place & " • " Date

But because a number of books do NOT indicate author, place, or date, I sometimes end up with this:

Title • • • Date

That’s not great for catalogs. Is there a formula I can use that will leave off the extra bullet(s) when one or more of the fields are empty?

Best answer by ScottWorld

You can just do a simple IF() statement before each field to check if it exists.

So you can do this:

Title & IF(Author, " • " & Author) & IF(Place, " • " & Place) & IF(Date, " • " & Date)

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You can just do a simple IF() statement before each field to check if it exists.

So you can do this:

Title & IF(Author, " • " & Author) & IF(Place, " • " & Place) & IF(Date, " • " & Date)

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You can just do a simple IF() statement before each field to check if it exists.

So you can do this:

Title & IF(Author, " • " & Author) & IF(Place, " • " & Place) & IF(Date, " • " & Date)

Yay! ScottWorld for the win! Thanks so much! :grinning:

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Haha, you’re welcome! Glad I could help! :slightly_smiling_face:

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