The solution is Text to Columns:

Copy Col C to Column F, then
use Data, Text to Columns, delimiter,
choose your delimiter, if you really have
two pipe symbols then check the option
to ignore duplicate delimiters on the next dialog


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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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"JR" wrote in message oups.com...
I have a particular cell in Excel that has multiple values defined in
it and separated by a delimiter. Was wondering if someone could help
me out with a macro that could parse this field down the spreadsheet
and separate those values into new columns in the spreadsheet.

So if Column C had:

abc||cde||123

I would like columns F, G, and H to have:
F would be abc
G would be cde
H would be 123

If Column C had
123||345||567||098
F would have 123
G would have 345
H would have 567
I would have 098

The number of values in C is not static and can vary.

Thanks.

JR