Have you tried Text-to-Columns?

Select your column of text entries

From the Excel main menu:
<data<text-to-columns
Check: Delimited.............[Next]
Check: Other and enter | in the box....[Next]
Click [Finish]

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Chuong Nguyen" wrote:

i had a excel workbook with few thousand lines of address

a

1 Bamboo Green|177 Tran Phu St., ||Da Nang City|Tel: (84-511)
822722, 830412
2 Green Park|48 Tran Nhan Tong St., |Hai Ba Trung Dist., |Ha
Noi|Tel: (84-4) 8227725

i need to seperate it out and get rid of the delimited "|"
into something like this

a b
c d e
1 Bamboo Green 177 Tran Phu St.,
Da Nang City Tel: (84-511) 822722, 830412
2 Green Park 48 Tran Nhan Tong St., Hai Ba Trung Dist., Ha
Noi Tel: (84-4) 8227725

please help with some vba code or marco to achieve this
thanks very much,
Chuong Nguyen