#HOW TO DO TEXT TO ROWS IN EXCEL 2010 HOW TO#

I have the following data with me where in Column B, three texts are separated together with a hyphen (-).

I want the data in the same format so we can click finish to see the result.

When we click on next, the dialog box appears, which allows us to change the format of both columns.

To do so, we double-click on the second line. So I need to delete the line between the second and third columns. In this example, I want to split the data into two columns, not in three, as the preview shows above.

#HOW TO DO TEXT TO ROWS IN EXCEL 2010 HOW TO#

In the dialog box, we will see the procedures of how to create a line, break a line, and move a line.

Date in Date Format and time in AM PM format, or we can have a date in one column, time in another, and AM-PM in another one. Either we can divide it into two columns, i.e.

Click on Next, and another dialog box appears it allows us to set field width as how we want to separate the data in this dialogue box.So we will use a feature called “Fixed Width” in Text to columns. For the current example, the data in column A has recorded time too, which means the data can be divided into AM & PM too.Select Column A and Go to text to Column under Data Tab and click it.Insert a column between Column A & Column B.I want to separate the data and time into separate columns. It contains the date & time of the action done. The data in Column A is a timestamp that google form automatically records at the time of data is filled. I have asked my students to fill out a google form to submit their responses to whether they have finished their homework. ( Tip: In this example, we could simply click on finish to see the output) Again, in the above step, our data is text, and we do not want to change the format so we can click on finish.Click on Next, and another dialog box appears, which allows us to select the format of data we want.( Tip: We have a little box where we can see how the delimiters will affect our current data or, in other terms, how our output will look like). In the current scenario, it is a space, so click on space. In a delimited section, click on next, and we can see that we have delimiters means the characters by which the text is separated.In the current example, we will use delimited as the number of characters between the first name and last name is not the same in all the cells. A dialog box appears which has two options:ĭelimited and Fixed width.Select column A as it needs to be separated, and Go to Data Tab and click on the text to column. ( Tip: If we do not insert another column, then the other portion of data will overwrite our data in column B) To insert another column, select column B and right-click on it, and then click insert, or we can use the shortcut key ( Ctrl with +)

As we want to split the data in column A into two parts, Insert a column between columns A & B to place the second portion of the text.

I want to separate the first name and last name to see how many people are there in the phonebook with the name of Ajay.

How to do text to rows in excel 2010