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skibeaux skibeaux is offline
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Default Text to Columns doesn't work

The spaces may not be true spaces, therefore text to columns is seeing one
continuos line of text. You would need to delete the apparent space and
insert a new space or perhaps just insert commas then delimit by comma.

"ValerieJTO" wrote:

I don't understand - could you be more specific?

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Remove any hidden characters like CHAR(160)
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200731


"ValerieJTO" wrote:

I have first and last names in a column that I copied and pasted from the
internet. I did some of my own data cleaning (remove hyperlinks, remove
titles, etc), and now I just want to separate into two columns. For some
reason, Text to Columns (Delimited with Space) is not working. I checked the
formatting of cells, and they appear to be normal - I tried with both General
and Text formats. Any ideas on how to fix?