In the opening Split Cells dialog box, please check the Split to Rows option or Split to Columns options as you need in the Type section, next specify a delimiter in the Specify a separator section, and click the Ok button. See screenshot above: Now another Split Cells dialog box pops out, please select the first cell of destination range and click the OK button. Selecting the text to columns button will prompt you with a wizard to walk you through splitting your cells. In step one, you will choose whether you want your text separated at a fixed width or delimited. A fixed width gives you complete control over your cell split. If you want to split it after 3 characters, you can, or 7 characters.
How to split text by space/comma/delimiter in Excel?
If you have a column list of data and you want to split them into several columns by a specific delimiter just like the below screenshots shown, how can you split them in Excel? Maybe some of users think of the Text to Column function only, but now I will introduce not only Text to Columns function, but also a VBA code for you.
- Split text strings into multiple rows/columns by space/comma/delimiter
Split text strings into multiple columns by space/comma/delimiter by Text to Columns feature
Text to Columns feature is very useful to split a list to multiple columns in Excel. This method is talking about how to split data by specified delimiter with Text to Column feature in Excel. Please do as follows:
1. Select the column list you want to split by delimiter, and click Data > Text to Columns. See screenshot:
2. Then a Convert Text to columns Wizard dialog pops out, and check Delimited option, and click Next button. See screenshot:
3. In the opening Convert to Text to Columns Wizard - Step 2 of 3 dialog box, please check the delimiter you need to split the data by.
Note: If you need to split your text string by a special delimiter, please check the Other option, and then type the delimiter into following box.
4. Click Finish. Now you can see the column list in selection has been split into multiple columns by the specified delimiter.
Extract numbers (or text) only from one cell/column into different columns/rows
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Split text strings into multiple rows/columns by space/comma/delimiter with Kutools for Excel
Above method can only split text strings into multiple columns. This method will introduce Kutools for Excel's Split Cells utility to split text strings into multiple rows or columns by specified delimiter in Excel easily.
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1. Select the range you will split text strings (in our case we select the range A1:A9 ), and click Kutools > Text > Split Cells.
2. In the opening Split Cells dialog box, please check the Split to Rows option or Split to Columns options as you need in the Type section, next specify a delimiter in the Specify a separator section, and click the Ok button. See screenshot above:
Now another Split Cells dialog box pops out, please select the first cell of destination range and click the OK button.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.How do we split kyzwell5konfgwell3k into columns. I need only the on has to be selected as delimit and separate into two words.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi Sunny,
The Text to Columns (Excel built-in feature) supports to split a cell to columns by a given character, and the Split Cells feature of Kutools for Excel also supports to split cells by one character.
If you need to split cells by a string of characters, you’d better apply a VBA macro.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This just shows how horrible excel is...how about a SPLIT function?? Duh...
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi Bob,
Kutools for Excel has released this feature – Split Cells. This feature can not only split cells by all kinds of delimiters to columns, but also split cells to rows. What’s more, it supports to split number and text from selected cells too.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Ok, so here is a problem I am stuck on that I cannot seem to resolve. I am looking to break up a long string of text with the following requirements:
1) Text can only be broken up at a space (not in the middle of a word)
2) The total length for each parsed cell must be as close to 40 characters as it can get using the space rule above.
For example, this comes in a single cell: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief'. In this example, I would expect the formula to break up this text into 4 cells:
It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief
I keep getting wrapped around the axle trying to use a combo of left,mid,right and search/find formulas, but not only is it very inelegant, but as soon as I run into a non-unique word, my find formula breaks down. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks. It is really helpful.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hello, How do i separete a long sentence into columns like
12534_MK_EC0102-Kanyuambora_OUTA 172.22.118.13 255.255.255.192 172.22.118.1. I need the process of separating to columns of: Site ID 12534_MK_EC0102; Site Name Kanyuambora_OUTA;IP 172.22.118; Mask 255.255.255; Gateway 172.22.118.1. Kindly assist.- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi Cosmas,
How do you want to split the lone sentences by? In your example, you can split the sentence by the delimiter “_” or “;” or “.”
Just try them as you need! - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.You can use the FIND and LEN commands to separate fields, for example :
A1: 12534_MK_EC0102-Kanyuambora_OUTA 172.22.118.13 255.255.255.192 172.22.118.1.
B1: =FIND(' ',$A$1) B2: =FIND(' ',$A$1,B1+1) B3: 'Fill Down From B2'
C1: =LEFT($A$1,B1) C2: =RIGHT(LEFT($A$1,B2),B2-B1) C3: 'Fill Down From C2' - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi Cosmas,
You can apply the Text to Columns feature on the Data tab in Excel Ribbon. In the Wizard, please set both delimiters of space and custom delimiters -, and it will split your long cell content to desired columns.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you so much for posting this, it's really very helpful at times.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.'172.22.118.13
255.255.255.192
172.22.118.1'
how do i split that cell information into 3 columns?- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi Huy,
How do you want to split the cells by? By length? By delimiter of dot? Or others?
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