by grim72 on November 18th, 2009

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I have an excel column. Each cell contains a code similar to 16203K - I want to split the cell into 3 seperate columns to seperate the first and last characters - i.e 1 / 6203 / K Is this feasible? I am not technically gifted so simple answer appreciated

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  • by Brian on November 18th, 2009

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    Click on cell or column info is in. Go to Data on your tool bar then click "Text to Columns". Click radio button next to "Fixed with", then next. Click on the line where you want the breaks to be, then next. Confirm what you want to export. You can choose here to not export a part of the text you are splitting. Then click next. You must be sure that the cell to the right are clear. So if you are creating 3 columns you need 2 columns to the right open. If not, items in cells to the right will be deleted. You can add columns prior to splitting cell.

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    • That works too - and it has the advantage of getting rid of the originals, but it has the same problem as my suggestion if the codes have a variable number of digits.

      Brian I

      by Brian I on November 18th, 2009

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