Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

You may have observed that you can copy or move cells, rows, columns, or ranges in Microsoft Office Excel at your convenience. However, there appears to be no trick available for swapping them. Not ...

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool. Excel gives you two ways to split cells into columns: using delimiters, or using a manual fixed width. Splitting cells into ...

You can take the text in one column and split it into multiple columns using the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. To get started, open the Excel Sheet in which you would like to split a single column ...

When working with business data, you may encounter grouped data that needs to be divided into multiple columns. As an example, you might have a customer list that groups first and last names in a ...

Data imported from other spreadsheets or databases is already separated into fields, using something called a field delimiter—a comma, tab, space, or custom character—to separate one field from ...

Q: I have noticed that when I use Excel’s Text to Columns tool to parse text data, sometimes it automatically recognizes the commas, spaces, quotes or other separators, and other times it does not.