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    Need a New Row at Every Instance of a Certain Character (or every X columns)

    Greetings! Thank you for this wonderful resource.

    I have a huge swath of data from a .CAP file that needs to be parsed out correctly into columns (no problem!) and rows (big problem).
    Here is what it currently looks like: Excel1.jpg I've highlighted a few cells here. I need a new row starting at, or even after, each instance of "D".

    Manually done, here is what I want:Excel2.jpg

    This is what happens when I use "find and replace" to replace each "D" with character 10/ALT+0100/Ctrl+J (the new line character); a large space within each cell rather than the expected hard return/new row at each instance of "D".
    Excel3.jpg

    This data is already transposed once from a single-column format. I've tried using Transpose while selecting an area in a new sheet of a 'logical' size.

    Is there a way to have Excel recognize that "D", or even simply count X number of columns over, and start a new row in column A?
    Last edited by LBooks; 08-15-2013 at 12:51 PM.

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