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    Question Splitting a string of numbers into separate cells: where to even begin?

    I am posting this here because I don’t even know if the “VBA/Macros” forum or the “Formulas & Functions” forum would be better (and also to indicate the very basic level at which the answer will need to be for me to understand it).

    Basically, I learned recently how to collapse the contents of many cells into one (separated by commas) by going to VBE, inserting a module, copying a code into it, and then back in the spreadsheet typing =ConCat(the cells I want to merge).

    I want to reverse that process and split a strong of numbers (without commas- something like 24314231342 but longer) into separate columns. Right now I’m using “text to columns”/fixed width and manually clicking the break line for each digit. But I feel there must be a faster, easier, and less error-prone way.

    I did see this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...to-digits.html and tried to understand it. But while I can copy the codes provided, of course, I don’t understand how to use them. I need the kind of step by step directions you would give to the most stupid person possible.

    (I’m in Excel 2010, if that helps). I feel like this is hopefully an easy one? I appreciate any help.
    Last edited by confused_teacher; 06-03-2013 at 02:34 PM.

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