When working with business data, you may encounter grouped data that needs to be divided into multiple columns. As an example, you might have a customer list that groups first and last names in a ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

You can divide in Excel using a few different methods. It's easy to divide two numbers or cell values in Excel using the forward slash in a simple formula. You can also divide a column of values by a ...