Getting tired by using Text to Column option to convert a Text into Column after a specific character each time? If so, then you can use a formula to split a Text into columns after each time a specific character appeared in the Text in Excel. Want to know how? Check the below example. Sample Text: Before starting our study today, I'm going to show a sample data to make clear that what exactly the data is and what we need: Image 1: A2 cell contains the Sample Data And we are going to do: Image 2: Convert the Text (A2) to Column (B2:F2) Solution: In cell B2 write the below formula and copy right to the F2 cell: = SUBSTITUTE( MID( SUBSTITUTE($A2," # ",REPT("-",LEN($A2))) , (COLUMN(A2)-1)*LEN($A2)+1,LEN($A2)) ,"-","") So, how this formula works? Well, we need to took a starting point after a certain number of characters and then add a sample character ("-") specific time LEN($A2). And finally delete the a...
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