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.

Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...