Jun 01, 2016 The Split Text pane will open on the right side of your Excel window, and you do the following: Expand the Split by character group, and select one of the predefined delimiters or type any other character in the Custom box. Choose whether to split cells to columns or rows. Review the result under the Preview section, and click the Split button. To split a cell in Excel, add a new column, change the column widths and merge cells. To split the contents of a cell into multiple cells, use the Text to Columns wizard, flash fill or formulas. How To Split Cells In Excel? First, open the spreadsheet and select the particular column which you want to divide ( You can select the column by clicking at the heading of the column.) Now click on the Data tab and choose Text to Columns icon from the Data tools of the ribbon on the top. It will show you two options: Delimited: You can select. Download the feature file here this video I demo. Split Cell in Excel Using Flash Fill. The last option to split a cell in Excel is using the Flash Fill feature. This requires that the cells you’re splitting the original one into are right beside it. If this is the case, all you have to do is type the part of the original cell that you want to split out.

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Posted November 29, 2013 by Vishwanath Dalvi in Microsoft Excel

With Excel, you can split one cell into multiple rows or a comma delimited cell into multiple rows. This tutorial explains how.

If your job requires you to manipulate or organize large amounts of data, you probably spend lots of time working with Microsoft Excel for a variety of purposes. Excel is the gold-standard spreadsheet for manipulating data data and generating graphs.

You also need to deal with formatting and splitting data within Excel using formulas and filters.

Video Tutorial

Excel Split Cells Vba

Step-by-step directions

The process of converting one delimited row into multiple rows is divided into two stages.

1. Convert a delimited row string into multiple columns.
2. Transpose multiple columns into multiple rows.

Excel Split Cells By Character

Let us assume that you have the following data in a cell as one row, which is separated by a comma (,). This means the comma is a delimiter in this string.

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Stage 1 – Convert a Delimited Row String into Multiple Columns

1. Select the delimited row that you want to convert into multiple rows.
2. From the top ribbon on the Data tab in the Data tool group, click Text to Columns.

3. In Step 1 of the Convert Text to Columns Wizard, select Delimited, and then click Next.

4. In Step 2, select the Comma checkbox, and clear all other checkboxes. In the Data preview, you can see the email addresses separated into multiple columns. Then click Finish.

Now, you can see the delimited row is separated into six different columns from A to F. We have completed the first stage, converting a delimited string into multiple columns. Now, we will complete Stage 2: Transpose.

Stage 2 – Transpose Multiple Columns into Multiple Rows

1. Select the range of columns, in this case columns A to F.
2. Press CTRL + C, or click Copy on the Home tab.
3. Select the cell where you want your first row to be. Right on that cell, from Paste Options, select the fourth option which is Transpose.

The video tutorial will take you through the same steps.

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