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Breaking up cell contents

Posted by Calabrese on February 26, 2001 6:37 AM

How would I take a column of cells that have a large number of characters in them and break them up into multiple cells having no more than 250 characters in each?

Re: Breaking up cell contents

Posted by walter on February 26, 2001 2:01 PM

You could get fancy with text functions, but the easiest way would be to do data...text-to-columns...choose fixed width.
Then watch the ruler across and click the data where you need a column break.

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