Data/Text to Columns usually works for the people in my office. You may have to do some manual cleanup on a few records, depending on what's in them. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Blanchard" <dblanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: [mso] separating parts of a text string in Excel > I've imported a mialing list into Excel in the form "firstname > lastname|email". I need to get the 3 parts into separate cells so I can > re-combine them into another format (without manually cutting and pasting > hundreds of email addresses). Is there an "un-concatenate" function or > something similar? Dan ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************