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Insert a semicolon in lieu of ALT Enter
Hey everyone,
Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. For example, ONE cell will look like this: John Freeman 123 Melody Lane Nutley, NJ 07110 I need to separate everything into multiple columns. So ONE column will just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address, another contains the City, so on a so forth. I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. The only problem is separating the data. I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to. Is there a way to do this? THANKS! Joe |
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You should be able to do it without using that intermediate step.
Select your range Data|Text to columns (xl2003 menus) Delimited By: ctrl-j It may look like nothing is in that box, but try it. And finish up. You can actually use the same ctrl-j in the Edit|replace dialog, too. Access Joe wrote: Hey everyone, Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. For example, ONE cell will look like this: John Freeman 123 Melody Lane Nutley, NJ 07110 I need to separate everything into multiple columns. So ONE column will just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address, another contains the City, so on a so forth. I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. The only problem is separating the data. I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to. Is there a way to do this? THANKS! Joe -- Dave Peterson |
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You can use Text To Columns directly with your existing data... use
Delimited and in the Other field type Ctrl+J... the table will show your data split apart, simply hit the Finish button to lock it in. -- Rick (MVP - Excel) "Access Joe" wrote in message ... Hey everyone, Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. For example, ONE cell will look like this: John Freeman 123 Melody Lane Nutley, NJ 07110 I need to separate everything into multiple columns. So ONE column will just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address, another contains the City, so on a so forth. I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. The only problem is separating the data. I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to. Is there a way to do this? THANKS! Joe |
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You can use Find & Replace (CTRL-H) to replace CTRL-J (equivalent to
the hard returns) with a semicolon (or with some other character like | ). Highlight the column first. Hope this helps. Pete On Feb 22, 6:46*pm, Access Joe wrote: Hey everyone, Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. *For example, ONE cell will look like this: John Freeman 123 Melody Lane Nutley, NJ 07110 I need to separate everything into multiple columns. *So ONE column will just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address, another contains the City, so on a so forth. I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. *The only problem is separating the data. *I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to. Is there a way to do this? *THANKS! Joe |
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WOW - that is AWESOME guys! THANK YOU!
"Pete_UK" wrote: You can use Find & Replace (CTRL-H) to replace CTRL-J (equivalent to the hard returns) with a semicolon (or with some other character like | ). Highlight the column first. Hope this helps. Pete On Feb 22, 6:46 pm, Access Joe wrote: Hey everyone, Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. For example, ONE cell will look like this: John Freeman 123 Melody Lane Nutley, NJ 07110 I need to separate everything into multiple columns. So ONE column will just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address, another contains the City, so on a so forth. I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. The only problem is separating the data. I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to. Is there a way to do this? THANKS! Joe . |
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