Please Help. Copied and pasted list that was not from excel. How do I separate words

Hello,

First, I suggest you change your thread title so that others who might run into the same problem like you can find this thread easier using the Search tool.

Second, you might want to try the function Text to Column in Excel.
- Select all rows (In your ... picture, it's A1 to A11)
- Click on "Data" on the menu bar, then choose "Text to Columns", choose "Delimited", "Space", and it will automatically do the job for you.

Hope this help.

Hi and welcome to the forum,

Find the attached with this really cool formula
=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1," ",REPT(" ",LEN($A1))),(COLUMN()-2)*LEN($A1)+1,LEN($A1)))

Put it in A2 and pull across and down for your answer.

killingtimeemail,

Welcome to the Excel Forum.

With your raw data in column A, beginning in cell A1. The data will be split into cells in column A.

Please TEST this FIRST in a COPY of your workbook (always make a backup copy before trying new code, you never know what you might lose).

1. Copy the below code, by highlighting the code and pressing the keys CTRL + C
2. Open your workbook
3. Press the keys ALT + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor
4. Press the keys ALT + I to activate the Insert menu
5. Press M to insert a Standard Module
6. Where the cursor is flashing, paste the code by pressing the keys CTRL + V
7. Press the keys ALT + Q to exit the Editor, and return to Excel
8. To run the macro from Excel, open the workbook, and press ALT + F8 to display the Run Macro Dialog. Double Click the macro's name to Run it.

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Before you use the macro with Excel 2007 or newer, save your workbook, Save As, a macro enabled workbook with the file extension .xlsm

Then run the ReorgData macro.