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I have an ugly import file that I am trying to fix up so that I can
actually use it. The format looks like (the | is a new new) Doe, John ID | 1234 Phone | 5551234567 Smith, Adam ID | 4567 Doe, Jane ID | 4444 StId | 12345 Phone | 4444444444 etc I would like to make this a more standard format with the data in columns (Doe | John | 1234 | 5551234567) and am wondering how other people would do this? My original idea was to see if the string had a comma, if so append the cells above that...something like =if(find(a2,",")1, a2, a1&":"&a2). In theory that should give me a long text string sepearted by :, then I can do text to column. In reality, I am having problems making this work, plus it is sort of ugly because then I have to figure out which text strings contain all the data. Surely there must be a better way to do this. How would you do this? -Andrew V. Romero |
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