Thursday, 27 November 2014

Microsoft Excel: How to split a comma or any delimited (pipe, colon, etc) text in one column to separate columns?

How to split a comma or any delimited (pipe, colon, etc) text/data in one column to separate columns in microsoft excel?


In the example below, all the data is in the first column. Now how do you split it to separate columns in Microsoft Excel? Easy. Look at the next screen.






Select the first column, go to Data tab and press the Text to Columns button and you will see the Convert Text to Columns wizard. You can select Delimited file type and press next and select comma as the delimiter. If you have pipe delimiter then select | as the delimiter and follow the next steps in the wizard.



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