one way,

select column "A". Go to Data / text to columns/delimited / select other
for the delimiter and put in the "-" as your sample shows.

It should put the results in a, b & c.

Hope this helps.

lomax
"maximus73" wrote
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I need to break up a phone number into three different columns. I have
column A that contains the phone number xxx-xxx-xxxx, I need to split
that up into three different columns. Column B would equal the area
code... column C would equal the Prefix.. and column D would equal the
digits..

any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

thanks


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