Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.