Managing data in Microsoft Excel often requires splitting cells into columns or rows to improve organization and usability. Whether you’re handling simple lists or working with complex datasets, Excel ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Microsoft Excel allows you to crunch a myriad of numbers to meet your calculation requirements. Although times can be calculated without special formatting, your personal needs may require that you ...

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Struggling with unwieldy Excel spreadsheets that seem impossible to manage? You’re not alone. Many of us face the challenge of organizing large datasets in a way that makes sense and is easy to ...

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to split a column using an IF() function in Excel, by Susan Harkins. From the hottest programming languages to commentary on the Linux OS, ...

When you're working with data in Excel, certain tasks can feel unnecessarily tedious. Maybe you need to split a column of full names into separate first and last name columns, or combine text from ...