Insert a semicolon in lieu of ALT Enter

[Access Joe]

Hey everyone,

Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both

I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using
ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. For example, ONE cell will
look like this:

John Freeman
123 Melody Lane
Nutley, NJ 07110

I need to separate everything into multiple columns. So ONE column will
just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address,
another contains the City, so on a so forth.

I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. The only
problem is separating the data. I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon
where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use
Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to.

Is there a way to do this? THANKS!
Joe

 

[Rick Rothstein]

You can use Text To Columns directly with your existing data... use
Delimited and in the Other field type Ctrl+J... the table will show your
data split apart, simply hit the Finish button to lock it in.

 

[Dave Peterson]

You should be able to do it without using that intermediate step.

Select your range
Data|Text to columns (xl2003 menus)
Delimited
By:
ctrl-j
It may look like nothing is in that box, but try it.

And finish up.

You can actually use the same ctrl-j in the Edit|replace dialog, too.

 

[Pete_UK]

You can use Find & Replace (CTRL-H) to replace CTRL-J (equivalent to
the hard returns) with a semicolon (or with some other character like
| ). Highlight the column first.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Access Joe]

WOW - that is AWESOME guys! THANK YOU!

You can use Find & Replace (CTRL-H) to replace CTRL-J (equivalent to
the hard returns) with a semicolon (or with some other character like
| ). Highlight the column first.

Hope this helps.

Pete



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