Using the Excel Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at each comma, period, or other characters.

How to Separate Text From Numbers in Excel. When you open a raw data file in Excel, the program doesn't always recognize the way in which the data is formatted, such as comma-delimited, tab ...

Select the delimited text and copy it to the clipboard. Launch Excel and create a new workbook. Click the first cell in column A and click the "Paste" button in the ribbon.

Have you played with the "Text to Columns" function on the Data menu/tab yet? It's similar but not quite identical to the File Open text importer.

To capitalize the first letter of a text string in Excel, you can use a formula that combines multiple functions. We show you how to do it.

Prevent duplicates before they happen by combining a simple function with data validation.