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Rick

Reformatting data
 
Excel 2003.
A report comes in in RTF format. It has the data for each of the 12 months
all in 1 row and 1 column, separated by a space between each one. So there
are 12 groups of data in each row, separated by a space between each one.

I wanted to reformat that data so that it would have each months data in a
separate column/cell. So the 12 groups of data in 1 row and 1 column, would
become 12 columns of data on 1 row, the same row, each in its own cell.

The data has these formats coming in on Sheet1.

Col A
###
#,###
#.#
##.#%
$###,###

Thanks for your expert help.
--
Rick

Dave Peterson

Reformatting data
 
So all those numbers are in a single cell (like A1) for each year.

Maybe you could select the range and do
Data|text to columns (xl2003 menus)
Delimited
by spaces
and plop the output into the adjacent 12 cells.


Rick wrote:

Excel 2003.
A report comes in in RTF format. It has the data for each of the 12 months
all in 1 row and 1 column, separated by a space between each one. So there
are 12 groups of data in each row, separated by a space between each one.

I wanted to reformat that data so that it would have each months data in a
separate column/cell. So the 12 groups of data in 1 row and 1 column, would
become 12 columns of data on 1 row, the same row, each in its own cell.

The data has these formats coming in on Sheet1.

Col A
###
#,###
#.#
##.#%
$###,###

Thanks for your expert help.
--
Rick


--

Dave Peterson

Rick

Reformatting data
 
Thanks Dave,

It worked perfectly. Just the solution I needed.

Yes, the data was in cell A1.

The Data | Text to Columns ... menu choice is also in xl2000.

Thanks for your prompt reply and expert help.
--
Rick


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

So all those numbers are in a single cell (like A1) for each year.

Maybe you could select the range and do
Data|text to columns (xl2003 menus)
Delimited
by spaces
and plop the output into the adjacent 12 cells.


Rick wrote:

Excel 2003.
A report comes in in RTF format. It has the data for each of the 12 months
all in 1 row and 1 column, separated by a space between each one. So there
are 12 groups of data in each row, separated by a space between each one.

I wanted to reformat that data so that it would have each months data in a
separate column/cell. So the 12 groups of data in 1 row and 1 column, would
become 12 columns of data on 1 row, the same row, each in its own cell.

The data has these formats coming in on Sheet1.

Col A
###
#,###
#.#
##.#%
$###,###

Thanks for your expert help.
--
Rick


--

Dave Peterson
.


Dave Peterson

Reformatting data
 
Glad it worked.

Before xl2007, the menus in all the versions were pretty much the same.

I use xl2003 menus to mean any of those versions--just to distinguish it from
the xl2007 ribbon stuff.


Rick wrote:

Thanks Dave,

It worked perfectly. Just the solution I needed.

Yes, the data was in cell A1.

The Data | Text to Columns ... menu choice is also in xl2000.

Thanks for your prompt reply and expert help.
--
Rick

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

So all those numbers are in a single cell (like A1) for each year.

Maybe you could select the range and do
Data|text to columns (xl2003 menus)
Delimited
by spaces
and plop the output into the adjacent 12 cells.


Rick wrote:

Excel 2003.
A report comes in in RTF format. It has the data for each of the 12 months
all in 1 row and 1 column, separated by a space between each one. So there
are 12 groups of data in each row, separated by a space between each one.

I wanted to reformat that data so that it would have each months data in a
separate column/cell. So the 12 groups of data in 1 row and 1 column, would
become 12 columns of data on 1 row, the same row, each in its own cell.

The data has these formats coming in on Sheet1.

Col A
###
#,###
#.#
##.#%
$###,###

Thanks for your expert help.
--
Rick


--

Dave Peterson
.


--

Dave Peterson


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