One way ..

Select the col, say col A ?

Click Data Text to columns
(Delimited will be selected)
Click Next, and enter a dash in the box for "Other"
Click Finish

This will split the source col into 4 cols

And if you need to retain the appearance of the leading zeros for the first
col's numbers, just select the col and format as Custom, type: 00
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Max
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"CiceroCF" wrote in message
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I am trying to split up some data into multiple columns with part of the
data
in each column... ie: 02-34-5-M is currently in one column... i need it
split into 4 columns as the following....
02 34 5 M
01 256 0 Q
7 45 4 T
This needs to be done so I can sort by using the 2nd set of numbers.
Currently, this is an Excel file.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Carl