extracting words from a cell

Mr2017

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Hi

I've got a csv file with dozens of column titles in one cell.

Please find below the first 4 column titles, to give you an example of the data.

Sales_metric|Volume_metric|Promo_id|Zone_id|

Does anyone know how to extract the into separate columns so "Sales_Metric" would appear in one column, then "Volume_metric" would appear in the next column, etc, etc?

Thanks in advance.
 

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Yongle

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Use TextToColumns which is on the Data Tab with delimiter |

Like this...
Select the cell \click Data Tab \click TextToColumns \select Delimited \ NEXT \ Delimiters - check OTHER \ enter | in the box \ FINISH
 
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Mr2017

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Ok, great. That worked! Thank you very much!!
 
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