Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

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.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool. Excel gives you two ways to split cells into columns: using delimiters, or using a manual fixed width. Splitting cells into ...