Microsoft Excel has lots of features that can help you manage your data. For example, say you have a hundred cells, which are each filled with a first and last name. You can use the "Text to Columns" ...

Do you want to split a single column of text into multiple columns in your Excel spreadsheet? Using the Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text function TEXTSPLIT() is Excel’s TEXT TO COLUMNS feature in a formula and a bit more. Working with strings in Microsoft Excel is common, whether you’re parsing, concatenating ...

When working with business data, you may encounter grouped data that needs to be divided into multiple columns. As an example, you might have a customer list that groups first and last names in a ...

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 ...

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place. One of the reasons ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...