

For this example, leave the remaining settings unchanged and click Finish:Ī new column of data containing only the first names of staff will now appear adjacent to the column that you had previously selected:Īnd thats how easy it is to convert text to column in Excel. In the final stage of this wizard, you have the option of specifying the format this data will be in, where it will go, and more. Check the Space checkbox, since a space also appears between these two sets of information. As soon as you make this change, the “Data preview” section will show what the data will now look like. Since commas are used, uncheck the Tab box and check the Comma box. In the next stage of the wizard, you can select the delimiter type that the selected data uses. For this example, ensure that Delimited is selected and then click Next: Fixed width can be used when data is separated by one or more spaces.

Delimited data types are those that are separated by characters (as the sample data is). In the first stage of the wizard, you need to choose between delimited and fixed width data types. This action will open the Convert Text to Columns Wizard.

To convert this text to columns, you first need to select the cells in question. For example, in the sample worksheet, you can see that the Name column contains information that is probably better suited to two separate columns: If you have a cell in your workbook that contains a lot of text, you have the ability to separate it into separate columns automatically if there is a logical character that separates the text (such as a comma, semi-colon, or period). An alternative solution would be use to the TRANSPOSE function. The copied data and headers will now appear transposed in the new location:Īnd that’s how easy it is to transpose data in Excel. From the context menu, click Paste Special → Transpose (): Click Home → Copy or press Ctrl + C on your keyboard:Īs you cannot paste transposed data over the source data that you are copying from, right-click on cell G3. Select the cell containing the first name (A2). Type equal sign (), followed by the text Prof. Step 1: Select blank cells same size as the original range Step 2: Type the formula i.e., TRANSPOSE( Step 3: Enter the range of cells you wish to transpose. To transpose your data, you first need to select the data in question (including headers). Below are the steps to add a text before a text string in Excel: Click on the first cell of the column where you want the converted names to appear (B2). Making this change manually would be a very time consuming process, but luckily Excel 2013 has a way to swap this data for you. Let’s say that you want to have the months appear as columns, while the sales associates appear as rows. This worksheet shows sales for each salesperson by month:
