Nick:

Thank you for your help... I am running into a problem though.
If I set the Text to Columns for an 8 entry string format...
M1234 1112223 SHMOE, JOE ADAM 2Y(01/01/2005) M ER
then I have an entry w/o a middle name that is 7 entries long
T2323 5551212 EXAMPLE, GIRL 3Y(01/01/2004) F AUC
It will paste 3Y(01/01/2004) into E* when I'd like to have it in F*... is
there a way to limit column E* to alpha only and if there is numerics to skip
to colum F and paste?

Thank you,
Luke Slotwinski
"Nick Hodge" wrote:

Luke

I would split these using DataText to columns.... using space as the
delimiter. This will split them into the 7/8 fields. Then you can
re-assemble them using concatenation and copying down

e.g. M1234 and 2008000 will now be in A1 and B1, so you can re-assemble them
in a helper column to the right using

=A1&" "&B1

Once you have them all re-assembled and copied down, copy the helper columns
and EditPaste Special...Values to themselves to kill the formulae and
delete all the other stuff you don't need.

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
www.nickhodge.co.uk


"Luke Slotwinski" wrote in
message ...
Sorry got home from work and realized I made a mistake in this
description...
I need the paste string to be distributed accross a row not down a
column...
i.e. A1 B1 C1 ect, and not A1 A2 A3... Sorry for the confusion.

"Luke Slotwinski" wrote:

I am in need of a solution to split a paste string into multiple cells
within
a row.
There are 7 to 8 entries in this string, an example would be
M1234 2008000 Doe, Jane Mary 33Y(05/05/2000) F ER (8 string entry)
or
M5678 1234567 Lee, Jack 70Y(01/01/1900) M Psych (7 string entry)

Using the first example to expand on the needs of this project:
M1234 2008000 -- should go to Cell A1
Doe, Jane Mary -- should go to Cell A2
33Y(05/05/2000) F - should go to Cell A3
ER -- to go to Cell A4
*what complicates matters is there is not always a middle name so the
string
length varies from 7 and 8 entries (seperated by commas). But there will
always be an age (number) to start the next cell after the name.

Idealy if a user pasted this string of information into cell A1, it would
take it and split it up between A1 and A4.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated,
Thank you,
Luke Slotwinski