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I have copied and pasted a list of 16 participants from an email invite into excel and i want to create a list of participants in each cell. they are separated by the ; and i would like also to put their email address in a corresponding column .
can anyone point me in the right direction
Solved by S. Q. in 16 mins
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Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:10
Hi
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:11
Hello
User
23/05/2018 - 05:11
hi
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:11
so you have a list of name separated by ; right
User
23/05/2018 - 05:11
yes
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:11
can you paste it on the right herre
User
23/05/2018 - 05:12
assuming you can see it
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:12
yes
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:13
Divakaran Namputh, Sujith Kumar this is 1 name right?
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:13
this is a one time activity right?
User
23/05/2018 - 05:13
brett, sujith kerry and yusef
User
23/05/2018 - 05:14
will just need to separate and possibly do in the future.
User
23/05/2018 - 05:14
i got the list of emails now i want to separate the names so i can make an easy list
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:14
Coles, Brett is 1 name?
User
23/05/2018 - 05:15
yes that is correct last name then first name
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:15
ok for this we need to saparate one by one 1st email with name since we know the saparater is ;..
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:16
excel has a feature called Text to column
User
23/05/2018 - 05:17
where would that be located
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:17
[Uploaded an Excel file]
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:17
can you find it..
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:18
select delimited -> others(;) then click on ok
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:18
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Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:19
the result would look like this
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:19
are you getting it?
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:19
are you there
User
23/05/2018 - 05:20
yes - this produced a column each
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:20
ok now we will make it rows
User
23/05/2018 - 05:20
yes please
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:21
select all the column
User
23/05/2018 - 05:21
yes
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:21
cntrl+c
User
23/05/2018 - 05:21
yes
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:22
then select a cell right click paste special transpose
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:23
did you get it
User
23/05/2018 - 05:23
yes - can i do the same with the > symbols around the email?
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:23
exactly...
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:24
so select the entire column
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:24
then text to column -> delimeter->other(<)
User
23/05/2018 - 05:25
thanks for your help much appreciated and i like your service
User
23/05/2018 - 05:25
Thank you
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:25
did you get this
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Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:25
:) glad to help
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:26
please leave a feedback after you end the session
User
23/05/2018 - 05:26
yes exactly what i got
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:26
:D.. so you can do this for the entire list now
User
23/05/2018 - 05:26
yes
Excelchat Expert
23/05/2018 - 05:26
please leave a feedback after you end the session
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