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Text To Columns In Excel Mac

Excel’s Text to Columns feature splits text in a cell into multiple columns. This simple task can save a user the heartache of manually separating the text in a cell into several columns. We’ll start with a simple example of splitting two samples of data into separate columns. If you move the linked Excel file (for example, to another folder), the link will break. To relink it, follow the steps above again. To edit the data, double-click the table to open the linked worksheet in Excel. If you edit the worksheet in Excel, the changes appear in the Word document when you save the Excel worksheet.

The paste special feature is undoubtedly a very useful option in Excel. It helps us control what we want to copy from the source and what we don't. I often refer to this option for various tasks, and here the shortcut of paste special in excel comes in handy.

Paste Special Shortcut in Windows

In windows, the keyboard shortcut for paste special is CTRL+Alt+V. Once you press this key combination, the paste special dialog box will open. Here you will many choices for pasting your data. Choices like All, Value, Format, etc. Each choice has a letter underlined that you can press on the keyboard to paste that property of copied cell/range.

Paste Special Shortcut in Mac

In mac, we use CTRL+COMMAND+V key combination to open the paste special dialog. To select an option from the list, we use the COMMAND+letter key in mac.

Let's have some examples to see the paste special shortcuts in action.

Excel Paste Special Example

Here I have an excel table that is formatted and has formulas in it.

Now press the shortcut CTRL+ALT+V in windows to open the paste special shortcut. On Mac use the above mentioned shortcut.

I want to just paste the values. I hit the V key (V is underlined on Value option). The value option is selected. When I hit the Enter button, I get naked values. It does not have any formatting or formulas.

On Mac, we use the command+V key to select Value.

To paste just formatting, press the T key (T is underlined for Formats). It pastes the formatting of the copied range to the selected range.

On Mac, use the command+T key to select Value.

Similarly, we can do all of the tasks in using just the keyboard with the paste special shortcuts options.

Paste Special from non-Excel source

Many times we copy data from other sources, like the internet or any other application. In those cases, if you directly paste using CTRL+V, excel will most likely paste all the components of source like formatting, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. which is undesirable (in most cases). You would probably like to paste values only. In that case, you will use paste special. When using the paste special, here you will get only three options; HTML, Unicode Text, and Text.

The default is an HTML option, which will paste everything you copied. Others are Unicode Text and Text (press T for selecting Text). These two options will paste plain text, that we desire most of the time.

The difference in Text and Unicode Text is that Unicode Text uses Unicode to convert ASCII values into text and symbols. The ASCII Text is useful when we work with multinational data or Mathematical and Scientific data.

The Sequential Shortcut For Paste Special

This one is old but I frequently use it. If you hit the keys ALT--> E-->S, one by one, it will open the Paste Special menu. This is an old command that was used in Excel 2003 but it is still compatible. Afterward, the process is the same.

I hope it is helpful. If you have any Excel/VBA related query, ask it in the comments section below.

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Making and Using Excel web queries

Web queries bring tables from the web directly into Microsoft Excel. These instructions explain how to make and use web queries for Microsoft Excel on your Mac.

By Jim Gordon, co-author of
Office 2011 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies

Data in Web pages

Data in web pages can be displayed a variety of ways:

In row and column tables that are HTML based
As the result of a query
As a picture
Within a PDF file

With Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac you can grab data from row and column HTML tables. If a query result is presented as an HTML table, you can capture that too. You can't import data directly from pictures or PDF files. Only data arranged in row and column HTML tables can be imported using a web query. Other techniques (e.g. Optical Character Recognition, Adobe PDF tools, etc) not discussed on this page can be used for capturing data from pictures and PDF files.

Getting the data

You can get HTML row and column data by running a web query. A web query is a text file saved with a .iqy file extension. A web query file contains the URL of the web page that holds the data.

Free samples - but now they're broken!

Excel comes with these three free sample web queries that were supposed to let you see web queries in action: Dow Jones put the kabash on these samples, so they no longer work.

MSN MoneyCentral Currencies
MSN MoneyCentral Major Indices
MSN MoneyCentral Stock Quotes

See below ffor how to make your own queries. Once you've made a web query, follow these instructions to run it.

Run a web query

Your Mac must have a live internet connection to run queries on web pages that are found on the internet.

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There are three ways to run a web query in Excel 2011. Excel comes with some example web queries. To try one of the example queries, run the MSN MoneyCentral Currencies query using the first method described below. The result set will be a data range containing up to the minute currency exchange rates for the US dollar vs other currencies. The query becomes part of the Excel worksheet. The result set of a query is called a QueryTable.

From the Data menu choose Get External Data > Run Saved query.

The Choose a Query dialog displays defaulting to the Queries folder.
Select a query file to run in the Choose a Query dialog.
Click the Get Data button.
The Returning Data to Excel dialog opens. You can choose a cell that will be used for the upper left cell of the imported table. The default location shown is the cell that was selected when you started these steps. We'll discuss the Properties option later.
Click the

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