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    Parsing data to separate columns

    Hello.

    I can write a simple macro but not sure how to tackle this one. Attached is an Excel workbook. Column A has a few pieces of information: 1. Physician Name 2. Address 3. Phone Number and 4. Fax number 5. Blank rows. Some addresses have 2 lines and some have 1 line.

    I need a macro that would put the address, phone number, and fax number all in separate columns. I want to end up with a spreadsheet that has all information in separate columns and Column A only left with physician name. The challenge is that some Column A information sets have 1 blank row and some more than that.

    Any advice? Greatly appreciated.

    Thank you!

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    Re: Parsing data to separate columns

    A sample workbook like this should have two sheets, BEFORE and AFTER. Show us a mockup of the expected results from a sample set of data so there is no guesswork on the goal line. You need only include enough BEFORE data to fully represent all the variations in the data.
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    Re: Parsing data to separate columns

    Thank you for feedback. Here is the corrected Excel Workbook. Sheet 2 shows the desired outcome (the section that is highlighted in yellow is what the rest of the data should look like - the address, phone and fax all in one line).

    Please let me know if I omitted anything else.

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    Re: Parsing data to separate columns

    This macro gets you 99.9% of the way there. Scan through the results and delete out the few rows that shouldn't be there.
    There are one or two rows that are just too different, but I left the original data so you can grab the missing phone numbers on those one or two.

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    Re: Parsing data to separate columns

    This was perfect. Thank you sooo much!

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    Re: Parsing data to separate columns

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