■ EXAMPLE 5: JOIN DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS TO FORM VALID DATE FORMATS (DELIMITER IS SLASH “/”) This would instantly split the days, months and years into different columns. Select the data range, i.e., A2:A14 ➪ Go to the ‘ Data‘ tab ➪ Click on ‘ Text to Columns‘ under the Data Tools section ➪ ‘ Convert Text to Columns Wizard‘ appears. ■ Note: We had detail discussed on Excel shortcuts in separate two tutorials, suggested you read these tutorials:Ĩ0+ Excel Shortcuts with ALT Key || Best Hotkey of Keyboard Shortcutsĩ0+ Best Excel CTRL Shortcuts | Useful Keyboard Shortcuts | Select the data range, i.e., A2:A14 ➪ Press either Alt+D+E (sequentially press Alt, D, E)or Alt+A+E (sequentially press Alt, A, E) which will open the ‘Convert Text to Columns Wizard'. STEPS TO START TO CONVERT TEXT TO COLUMNS WIZARD ■ EXAMPLE 10: CONVERT NUMBERS WITH TRAILING MINUS SIGN TO NEGATIVE NUMBERS.■ EXAMPLE 9: EXTRACT FIRST / LAST FEW CHARACTERS OF A FIXED WIDTH TEXT/STRING.■ EXAMPLE 6: SPLIT TEXT INTO YEARS, HOST NAMES & WINNER TEAM (DELIMITERS ARE HYPHEN “-” & UNDERSCORE “_”).(03) USING THE ‘CONVERT TEXT TO COLUMNS WIZARD‘ TO CONVERT INVALID DATE FORMATS TO VALID DATE FORMATS.(02) TO USE ‘PASTE SPECIAL' TO CONVERT THE FORMULAS INTO VALUES.(01) TO USE CONCATENATE() FUNCTION JOINING THE DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS WITH DELIMITER SLASH ‘/'.■ EXAMPLE 5: JOIN DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS TO FORM VALID DATE FORMATS (DELIMITER IS SLASH “/”).■ EXAMPLE 4: SPLIT DATES IN THE DAYS, MONTHS & YEARS (DELIMITER IS HYPHEN “-“).■ EXAMPLE 3: CONVERT INVALID DATE FORMATS TO VALID DATE FORMATS.■ EXAMPLE 2: SPLIT DATE & TIME (DELIMITER IS SPACE ” “).■ EXAMPLE 1: SPLIT FIRST NAME, LAST NAME (DELIMITER IS COMMA ‘,') & COUNTRY NAME (DELIMITERS ARE AT THE RATE AND SPACE ‘ ‘).EXAMPLES OF CONVERT TEXT TO COLUMNS WIZARD (2) Fixed Width: This feature splits the text having a fixed width (i.e., count of characters in the text remain same in each cell) which is being joined with spaces or hyphen or underscore or slash after some fixed width. (1) Delimited: This feature splits the text which is being joined by characters, Commas, Tabs, Spaces, Semicolons, Colons, or any other character such as a hyphen (-), underscore ( _), slash ( / ), etc. There are two separate features of Convert Text to Columns: In advanced Excel, this feature is basically used to convert ‘ invalid date formats to a valid date format‘, convert ‘ number to text‘ format and ‘ text to number‘ format, split a ‘ delimited text into multiple columns‘, etc.

Using Excel Text to Columns Wizard to separate Delimited text into the multiple columns.Ĭonvert Text to Columns can work for a single column only at a time, it does not work with multiple columns.

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