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SEPERATE NUMBERS IN A CELL
Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. *562111 *541512 *42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 *323122, 323114, 541922 *541512, 541519 *423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 *236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 *56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 *54191, 541611, 54163 *524210 *541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Data/Text to Columns/Delimited/Comma
In article , lehigh46 wrote: Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. *562111 *541512 *42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 *323122, 323114, 541922 *541512, 541519 *423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 *236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 *56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 *54191, 541611, 54163 *524210 *541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Thanks for the help. It worked fine. There is one problem,...... and I think it has something to do with formatting. When I seprated the numbers, I noticed that the first number (which remained in it's original position) has a leading space which was existing when I copied and pasted from a website. This will not allow it to act numericly. The rest of the numbers are OK. The original info looked like the following; NAICS Codes:*562111 NAICS Codes:*541512 NAICS Codes:*42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 NAICS Codes:*323122, 323114, 541922 NAICS Codes:*541512, 541519 NAICS Codes:*423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 NAICS Codes:*236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 NAICS Codes:*56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 NAICS Codes:*54191, 541611, 54163 NAICS Codes:*524210 NAICS Codes:*541614 I then did a find and replace FIND: NAICS Codes: REPALCE ALL: (I left it blank) This resulted in the numbers you see below. Is there any way that I can fix this? Thanks Again Tom Snyder On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:50:28 -0600, JE McGimpsey wrote: Data/Text to Columns/Delimited/Comma In article , lehigh46 wrote: Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. *562111 *541512 *42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 *323122, 323114, 541922 *541512, 541519 *423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 *236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 *56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 *54191, 541611, 54163 *524210 *541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Format the column as General. Copy an empty cell. Select the column.
Choose Edit/Paste Special, selecting the Values and Add radio buttons. Click OK. This coerces "text numbers" to real numbers. In article , lehigh46 wrote: Is there any way that I can fix this? |
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It didn't work.
When I pasted it gave me an empty column. It must still think it's alpha. On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:50:24 -0600, JE McGimpsey wrote: Format the column as General. Copy an empty cell. Select the column. Choose Edit/Paste Special, selecting the Values and Add radio buttons. Click OK. This coerces "text numbers" to real numbers. In article , lehigh46 wrote: Is there any way that I can fix this? x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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If it gave you an empty column, you didn't Paste Special with the Add
radio button (as well as the Values radio button) selected. In article , lehigh46 wrote: It didn't work. When I pasted it gave me an empty column. It must still think it's alpha. |
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as long as a space is always used as your data separator
select your data <data<Text to columns delimited space "lehigh46" wrote: Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. 562111 541512 42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 323122, 323114, 541922 541512, 541519 423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 54191, 541611, 54163 524210 541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Hi,
Select the cells. Click 'Data' (in the Toolbar) -- Text to Columns -- Next -- check the 'Comma' box --Next --Finish Regards, B.R.Ramachandran "lehigh46" wrote: Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. 562111 541512 42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 323122, 323114, 541922 541512, 541519 423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 54191, 541611, 54163 524210 541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Hi Tom, you need to use Data Text to Columns wizard. Use "delimited" and
assign the comma as the seperator, this will automatically split the data at the commas and push them over in the columns as far as they need to go for each cell. HTH, Kevin M MOS Excel Specialist "lehigh46" wrote: Hi All, I have copied a small sample of a spread sheet which contains the following numbers and they resides in column A. 562111 541512 42149, 42184, 42212, 42213 323122, 323114, 541922 541512, 541519 423810, 424990, 423820, 424690, 532412 236210, 236220, 237110, 237310, 237990, 541330, 541380 56291, 56121, 23816, 23891 54191, 541611, 54163 524210 541614 I would like to seperate the numbers into columns B, C, D, E, and so on, starting with the first number in column B. Notice that the numbers are not all the same length. Can anyone tell me how I can accomplish this? Thanks for your help Tom Snyder x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 100,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1.6 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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