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Wed 2 Sep 2009, 16:22 Delegate Bobby said...

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I cannot use my shift cells left button

Fri 4 Sep 2009, 16:24 Trainer Amanda said...

RE: Excel

Hello Bobby

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

Is this a general problem you have all the time in Excel, or just in a specific instance? If it is something that has only occurred in a specific instance, can you recall the details of what you were trying to do then I might be able to help explain why you weren't able to use the shift cells left option.

Kind regards
Amanda

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Convert Text to Columns in Excel 2010

If you have a cell in your Excel spreadsheet that contains a lot of text and you want to divide it into separate columns, this can only be done if there is a logical character which separates the text, for example, a comma.

Select the cells you would like to convert. On the Data tab, click Text to Columns. Choose the format of your current data.

Select Delimited if the text contains a logical character otherwise select Fixed Width if there are a certain number of spaces between each field.

Click Next when a preview of the data appears. Then select the type of character that separates the various fields. If the character is not listed, select Other and enter the character.

Click Next again and then choose the format for each of the columns. Select the column heading in the Data preview and then select a data type from the Column data format options.

Click Finish and the text will appear in several columns.

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