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Default Parsing formatted data

Hi DP,
Amazing!
How are mere mortals supposed to know this? I can't find it in the Help.
Regards - Dave.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

If the delimiter is the alt-enter (like you use when you force a new line in a
cell), you can try this:

Select the single column range to parse.
Data|Text to columns (xl2003 menus)
delimited
and check other
Use ctrl-j (hold the control key when you hit lower case j)

And finish up.

Does it work?

Tufts wrote:

I received a spreadsheet with the address already pre-formatted for a label
but I need to parse that data into individual fields. The pre-formatted data
has a next line/carriage return at the end of each line. How do I do a parse
when the delimiter is several carriage returns within a single cell?


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Dave Peterson