Pasting Vegas odds from website

JenniferMurphy

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I'm using my grandson's interest in his local NFL team to teach him about probability. I found a website that gives the Vegas odds (futures) for each NFL team to win the Super Bowl. Here's one of them:

http://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/odds/futures/

I'd like to copy this data into a spreadsheet so I can do some calculations. I'd like to avoid having to type the data. But when I copy the data to the clipboard and then paste it into the spreadsheet, any odds that look like a date (6/1, 8/1) are converted into a date. If I preformat the cells as text and use Paste Special with the text option, I can get them to come in as text. But what I'd really like to do is get the numerator and denominator into separate cells.

So instead of

Denver Broncos6/1
Seattle Seahawks 6/1
New England Patriots8/1
Green Bay Packers 11/1
New Orleans Saints 11/1
San Francisco 49ers12/1

<tbody>
</tbody>

I'd like to get

Denver Broncos61
Seattle Seahawks61
New England Patriots81
Green Bay Packers111
New Orleans Saints111
San Francisco 49ers121

<tbody>
</tbody>

Is there a simple way to do that?
 

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Sorry, everyone. I found the Text to Columns facility on the Data tab. Problem solved.
 
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