Microsoft Word quickly converts columns to a table when you apply the "Insert" ribbon command and then select the "Convert Text to Table" option. To help you format the columns, Word displays the ...

You may have observed that you can copy or move cells, rows, columns, or ranges in Microsoft Office Excel at your convenience. However, there appears to be no trick available for swapping them. Not ...

You can take the text in one column and split it into multiple columns using the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. To get started, open the Excel Sheet in which you would like to split a single column ...

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 ...

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool. Excel gives you two ways to split cells into columns: using delimiters, or using a manual fixed width. Splitting cells into ...

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 ...

Q: I have noticed that when I use Excel’s Text to Columns tool to parse text data, sometimes it automatically recognizes the commas, spaces, quotes or other separators, and other times it does not.