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Copy a string in word and paste into excel in columns

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IThead

IThead

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Sep 6, 2002
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Hi,
I have a string like this "1 Johnson Chang 123.23 23.00" which was copy from ms word, how do I paste this information into excel and have it split into column for each field.

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Do a regular paste into Excel (cell A1) then...
Select Column A
Click Data > Text to Columns > Fixed Width > Next
Create/Delete/Move the break lines in accordance with how you want the data to break
Click Finish
 
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