Try this:

Select the single-column range of values

From the Excel Main Menu:
<data<text-to-columns.....Check: Delimited......Click [Next]
In the "other" box....Type the pipe symbol....Click [Finish]

Does that help?
Post back if you have more questions.
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Regards,

Ron (XL2003, Win XP)
Microsoft MVP (Excel)

"Baxter" wrote in message
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I have a field with two data elements, separated by a | (pipe symbol). I
would like to populate the 1st half into one cell, and the 2nd half into
another cell. This is the opposite of the Excel function "Concatenate".