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ccgbalarin
Nov 18, 2021Copper Contributor
Allocating data from one cell to other rows and columns
Hi everyone! I created a purchase order request from Jotform, but when I download the Excel file, all the information from the products come in one cell. I need the information to be alloc...
ccgbalarin
Nov 18, 2021Copper Contributor
Thanks Riny! It's exactly what I was looking for.
Can I do a Macro with the steps used in Power Query?
Riny_van_Eekelen
Nov 18, 2021Platinum Contributor
ccgbalarin Lear PowerQuery. It's much easier and more user friendly than VBA. The link below would be a good start. Somewhat of a learning curve, but once you get a feel for it, you wouldn't want to use anything else. And don't give up!
https://exceloffthegrid.com/power-query-introduction/
Read through the material and you'll learn about splitting columns into new rows. In your case the special delimiter is a "line-feed". And you'll be able to follow the few steps I applied to transform the raw data.