From jbartow at winhaven.net  Thu Jun  2 23:13:57 2016
From: jbartow at winhaven.net (John R Bartow)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:13:57 -0500
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel - pull data from cell
Message-ID: <04e501d1bd4e$59cd2390$0d676ab0$@winhaven.net>

Hi All,
Another Excel question, I need to extrapolate the data in one cell into
separate cells. I have 3460 rows of data, of which the first 4 columns data
are all nicely pertaining to their column header and the fifth column which
is data clumped together and formatted like this:
Details
WinHaven LLC / Prep / DESKTOP-CUV27BK - Agent version update: Do not update

Why they just didn't separate the 3 pieces into 3 columns (it's a .csv dump
from a database) I will never know, the company just got bought out so I
will never get them to make any customizations now! 

I need to extrapolate that data into one column for each data between the /

Any ideas?

TIA 
John B


From davidmcafee at gmail.com  Thu Jun  2 23:31:19 2016
From: davidmcafee at gmail.com (David McAfee)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 21:31:19 -0700
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel - pull data from cell
In-Reply-To: <04e501d1bd4e$59cd2390$0d676ab0$@winhaven.net>
References: <04e501d1bd4e$59cd2390$0d676ab0$@winhaven.net>
Message-ID: <CAMhYZWZ5EDEB6KFqYSUQTckxxGDRDNjVowOiBrmRUbhePLxMMg@mail.gmail.com>

If you cant do text to columns,  I'd just make 3 separate cells pull their
data.

I have an example i can send tomorrow from work. I'm  drinking right now
and might not give you the right now :p

Something like =trim(left(A1, find ("/")-1))
On Jun 2, 2016 9:14 PM, "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
> Another Excel question, I need to extrapolate the data in one cell into
> separate cells. I have 3460 rows of data, of which the first 4 columns data
> are all nicely pertaining to their column header and the fifth column which
> is data clumped together and formatted like this:
> Details
> WinHaven LLC / Prep / DESKTOP-CUV27BK - Agent version update: Do not update
>
> Why they just didn't separate the 3 pieces into 3 columns (it's a .csv dump
> from a database) I will never know, the company just got bought out so I
> will never get them to make any customizations now!
>
> I need to extrapolate that data into one column for each data between the /
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
> John B
>
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From stuart at lexacorp.com.pg  Fri Jun  3 08:38:44 2016
From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg (Stuart McLachlan)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:38:44 +1000
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel - pull data from cell
In-Reply-To: <04e501d1bd4e$59cd2390$0d676ab0$@winhaven.net>
References: <04e501d1bd4e$59cd2390$0d676ab0$@winhaven.net>
Message-ID: <57518864.30038.2B6456DA@stuart.lexacorp.com.pg>

Am I missing something?  That sounds like a standard Text To Column operation.

Select all the rows in the 4th Column
Select Data - Text to Columns
Choose Delimited
For the delimiter select"Other" and type in the slash.


On 2 Jun 2016 at 23:13, John R Bartow wrote:

> Hi All,
> Another Excel question, I need to extrapolate the data in one cell
> into separate cells. I have 3460 rows of data, of which the first 4
> columns data are all nicely pertaining to their column header and the
> fifth column which is data clumped together and formatted like this:
> Details WinHaven LLC / Prep / DESKTOP-CUV27BK - Agent version update:
> Do not update
> 
> Why they just didn't separate the 3 pieces into 3 columns (it's a .csv
> dump from a database) I will never know, the company just got bought
> out so I will never get them to make any customizations now! 
> 
> I need to extrapolate that data into one column for each data between
> the /
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA 
> John B
> 
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> Dba-office mailing list
> Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com
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>