Calculated Column-Make a copy of another column

I need to create a column whose value would be calculated based on another 2 columns. I would appreciate help in the syntax
MyCol=Col1TextCol2Text
When I try to use the followiing formulae, I get error:
The formula contains reference(s) to field(s).
I am using the formulae: =[Column1]&[Column2]
Thanks
Farida

If you want to put the two together, you can do:
=CONCATENATE([Column1],[Column2])
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I managed to get this code from here,
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3
Todd
5
4/20/2009
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5
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Short Text
Attribute type is not valid
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Hello,
You can refer to the following article which list some ODBC Scalar Functions which you can used in the T-SQL query statement.For example
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