How to join multiple tSortRow into one tFileOutputExcel - talend

I have to do a job with Talend, but I'm a beginner and the software is very complex, I'm a bit lost.
My current problem is to join multiple tSplitRow into one output excel file.
I don't know if I must use tMap? How to configure it? Or if another object exist to do that.
Each tSplitRow has the same structure: LastName,FirstName,Course,Grade.
My current structure
Thank's for help.

Since your components have the same structure, you can use tUnite to do a union of your rows. It takes multiple input links, and has a single output.

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Is it possible to force somehow the indexing service of MS SQL Server 2012 to index a particular filestream/record of a filetable?
If not, is there any way to know if a filestream/record has been indexed?
Thank you very much!
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Put up with the columns
Get unmaintainably clever about the way I SELECT rows for the DataSet
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