■ EXAMPLE 5: JOIN DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS TO FORM VALID DATE FORMATS (DELIMITER IS SLASH “/”).■ EXAMPLE 4: SPLIT DATES IN THE DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS (DELIMITER IS HYPHEN “-“).■ EXAMPLE 3: CONVERT INVALID DATE FORMATS TO VALID DATE FORMATS.■ EXAMPLE 2: SPLIT DATE & TIME (DELIMITER IS SPACE ” “).
■ EXAMPLE 1: SPLIT FIRST NAME, LAST NAME (DELIMITER IS COMMA ‘,') & COUNTRY NAME (DELIMITERS ARE AT THE RATE AND SPACE ‘ ‘).EXAMPLES OF CONVERT TEXT TO COLUMNS WIZARD STEPS TO START TO CONVERT TEXT TO COLUMNS WIZARD (2) Fixed Width: This feature splits the text having a fixed width (i.e., count of characters in the text remain same in each cell) which is being joined with spaces or hyphen or underscore or slash after some fixed width.
(1) Delimited: This feature splits the text which is being joined by characters, Commas, Tabs, Spaces, Semicolons, Colons, or any other character such as a hyphen (-), underscore ( _), slash ( / ), etc. There are two separate features of Convert Text to Columns: In advanced Excel, this feature is basically used to convert ‘ invalid date formats to a valid date format‘, convert ‘ number to text‘ format and ‘ text to number‘ format, split a ‘ delimited text into multiple columns‘, etc.
CONCATENATE Excel Range (with and without separator).Using Excel Text to Columns Wizard to separate Delimited text into the multiple columns.Ĭonvert Text to Columns can work for a single column only at a time, it does not work with multiple columns. You May Also Like the Following Excel Tutorials: If you want to get the result in cells in different rows, you can transpose the result ( as shown here). Note that Text to Columns would always split the content of the cells in separate columns. Now, Text to Columns checks each cell for line breaks and use it to split the content into separate cells. When you use the keyboard shortcut Control J, it specifies the line break as the delimiter in the Text to Columns wizard. It will simply overwrite the existing data and give you the result.Īlso, in case you already have data in the cells where you are about to get the result of Text to Columns, Excel will show you a prompt letting you know that you will be overwriting the existing data. Note that if you don’t want to keep the original data (it’s always advisable to do so though), you don’t need to specify the destination cell. The above steps would automatically split the content of the cells based on where the line break occurs in each cell. In my example, I want the result in B2, so I changed the value to $B$2. In Step 3 of 3, change the ‘Destination’ cell to the one where you want the output. Also, you will see the expected result in the ‘Data preview’ section (as shown below). You will not see anything in the box except a tiny blinking dot (if you look hard). Now Use the keyboard shortcut Control + J (hold the ‘Control’ key and then press the ‘J’ key). In Step 2 of 3, uncheck any existing Delimiters selection, and select the ‘Other’ option. 
In the Text to Columns dialog box, in Step 1 of 3, select Delimited and click ‘Next’. In the Data Tools group, click on the Text to Columns option. Select the entire dataset that you want to split. Using Text to Column to Split Multiple Lines in a Cellīelow are the steps that will split multiple lines in a single cell into separate cells: 
Note: If you’re wondering how I managed to insert each address element into a new line in the same cell, you can do that by using the keyboard shortcut – ALT + Enter (it enters a line break).
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