How to split a column using an IF() function in Excel Your email has been sent We all inherit Microsoft Excel sheets that don’t suit our working routine. If it’s a simple tracking sheet of some sort, ...

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.

When you're working on a data set, you occasionally need to split a column into two or more new columns. For example, if you imported a database with employees first and last names in one cell, but ...