moving blocks of date from 1 column to several columns in block order

hi everyone
can anyone give me a clue as to automate moving blocks of numbers from one column into several columns other than just going down the column and cutting and pasting
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needs to be column 1
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column2
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column 3


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Any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks