Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Excel is a great program with hundreds of helpful functions. Unfortunately, one function it's lacking is a simple way to merge two or more columns ...

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...

To clean up the messy data, it needs to be loaded into the Power Query Editor.