I have a column in a spreadsheet, in which several types of data are combined in the following format:
#### - ttttttttttt/llllll, ffff
I need to separate the ####, tttttttttt, llllll, and fffff into different columns, corresponding to the same row as the column from which the data is extracted.
Is there a way to accomplish this with a macro? While the length of the different data varies, the separators (i.e. " - ", "/" and ",") are consistent throughout.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Tom
Have you tried text to columns?
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Did you mean: recursion
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that... is it a function or a macro, or a plugin, maybe?
Thanks for your help!
Nope, select the full column, Data > Text To columns > Make sure Delimited is selected > Next > untick tab, in other put the delimiter press finish
You can then just repeat for the other delimiters
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Did you mean: recursion
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion
Brilliant! Many thanks! Guess this was something MANY XL users had encountered, so MS just created their own function. Again, MANY thanks!
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