When you're working on a data set, you occasionally need to split a column into two or more new columns. For example, if you imported a database with employees first and last names in one cell, but ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

Ratio The width of columns are relative to each other. This means 2:1 (default) allows column one to be twice as wide as column two, 1:1 allows columns to be the same width and 1:2 allows column two ...

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly powerful application that can tackle everything from simple tables to complex financial spreadsheets, and you can even password-protect an Excel file to keep your data ...

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to split a column using an IF() function in Excel, by Susan Harkins. From the hottest programming languages to commentary on the Linux OS, ...