Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Moving a Cell’s Lines of Text into Separate Columns

I previously posted this example showing how to enter separate lines of text into a single cell. This example shows how to move each line of a cell’s text into its own cell.

The first picture shows five cells in range A3:A7 that each have three lines of text for a person’s name, street address, and their city, state, and zip code.

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Step 1: Parse each cell’s lines of text. Select the range, and press the Alt+A+E keys to show the Text to Columns Step 1 Wizard.
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Step 2: In the Text to Columns Step 1 Wizard, choose the Delimited option and click the Next button.
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Step 3: In the Text to Columns Step 2 Wizard, select Otheras the delimiter, and in the Other field press the Ctrl+J keys. This will create an invisible character that delimits the cells’ individual lines of text. You do not need to go to Step 3; just click the Finish button.
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The final result.
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