Using the Text to Columns Tool One way to split data into multiple columns in Microsoft Excel is to use the built-in Text To Columns tool. This method is handy if you prefer to work in a dialog ...

Using the Excel Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at each comma, period, or other characters.

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

Choosing the Right Excel Method From quick fixes like “Text to Columns” to advanced options like Power Query and the TEXTSPLIT function, there’s a tool for every scenario.

If you have Excel 2019 or Excel 365, you can use the function TEXTJOIN to quickly join text in one cell and separate the text with any delimiter, even if you have many rows or columns of data to join.

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.