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    Text dash hyperlink, split to two columns to paste into Excel.

    I have a Word document (attached). For each line I have the Singer as text, then a dash, then the song as a hyperlink. I want to paste these into 2 columns in my Excel file, but if I copy as is from Word it pastes into a single cell with the whole value as a hyperlink.

    I'm thinking there should be some kind of Advanced Filter or Text to Columns feature in Word that will allow me to break my document into two columns, one for the artist, one for the hyperlink, which I could then paste into Excel, but I'm not very Word conversant, so can't figure out how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.
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    Re: Text dash hyperlink, split to two columns to paste into Excel.

    Hi Jomili,

    In Word, select all of your text, then click Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table. Set the 'Separate text at' to 'Other' and specify a dash (if it didn't automatically do that for you like it did for me). Click OK, and you should have your two-column table.

    You can then copy/paste into Excel keeping the hyperlinked songs, or paste matching destination formatting which will remove the hyperlinks leaving just the text.

    Hope that helps!

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    Re: Text dash hyperlink, split to two columns to paste into Excel.

    That was EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks so much for showing me how!

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