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Hello out the

I have the following data:

A
1 shoes, cars
2 jump, skip, hop

I want a formula that will separate the text an put them in inidvidual cells
i.e

A B C D
1 shoes, cars shoes cars
2 jump, skip, hop jump skip Hop

The number of charcters to be copied varies.

Any ideas or is this not possible in excel?


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Try:

Data Text to Columns Check Delimited Next Check Comma OK

If you want the data in columns B,C & D then copt the data from A to B first

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Hello out the

I have the following data:

A
1 shoes, cars
2 jump, skip, hop

I want a formula that will separate the text an put them in inidvidual
cells
i.e

A B C D
1 shoes, cars shoes cars
2 jump, skip, hop jump skip Hop

The number of charcters to be copied varies.

Any ideas or is this not possible in excel?





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Default separate text from one cell into 3 or more cells

Select the column (singular) of data and use Data-Text to columns-Delimited

"Sojo" wrote:

Hello out the

I have the following data:

A
1 shoes, cars
2 jump, skip, hop

I want a formula that will separate the text an put them in inidvidual cells
i.e

A B C D
1 shoes, cars shoes cars
2 jump, skip, hop jump skip Hop

The number of charcters to be copied varies.

Any ideas or is this not possible in excel?


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Default separate text from one cell into 3 or more cells

Select the column with the data
Data|Text to columns
Choose delimited
by comma and space
and finish up.

Sojo wrote:

Hello out the

I have the following data:

A
1 shoes, cars
2 jump, skip, hop

I want a formula that will separate the text an put them in inidvidual cells
i.e

A B C D
1 shoes, cars shoes cars
2 jump, skip, hop jump skip Hop

The number of charcters to be copied varies.

Any ideas or is this not possible in excel?


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Thanks everyone! That was so simple.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Select the column with the data
Data|Text to columns
Choose delimited
by comma and space
and finish up.

Sojo wrote:

Hello out the

I have the following data:

A
1 shoes, cars
2 jump, skip, hop

I want a formula that will separate the text an put them in inidvidual cells
i.e

A B C D
1 shoes, cars shoes cars
2 jump, skip, hop jump skip Hop

The number of charcters to be copied varies.

Any ideas or is this not possible in excel?


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