How to extract words contained in a cell

Copper Contributor

Hello,

I'd like to extract  from a series (column) of Excel cells data/text which were entered as follows within each cell:

 

Abcdef(alt-return)

Turhdkidjgf(alt-return)

Ghjjagdub(alt-return)

oiegdjs

 

and have the content of each line within the cell displayed in a series of adjacent separate cells on the same line.

I do not know how to indicate to the conversion assistant that the command (alt-return) is the to be used as splitting point and I cannot use  the other option (fixed width option) as the word contained have different sizes.

Is there a way to achieve this at once.

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

 

 

6 Replies

the unicode of ALT+ENTER is 10. So basically you can SEARCH for this unicode in your string and split it with LEFT and RIGHT

 

Fastest way is to select that column, when Data->Text to Columns, on second step select Other and enter into the box Alt+0010; on third step first cell for the destination range.

 

The only that works for PC, for Mac it's another way to enter newline symbol, not sure by which combination.

You can also use CTRL-J.

Yah, but that's for Windows as well. Tag was "Excel on Mac"

Sorry, didn't notice the tag.

 

Thank you very much. At least I could make it work once on a "guest" PC.