Excel - Value pasted cell does not parse with Text to Columns

Anonymous
2016-12-14T18:49:49+00:00

Please see the picture below:

I did my best to label everything in the bold text!

Column F has data separated by returns (partially shown in F2 with Wrap Text).

Cell V2 uses a formula to convert the returns in F2 to commas, a tip I got from this community.

What I NEED is to be able to parse the values in V2 with Text to Columns.

In V5, the Paste Values of V2, the Text to Columns only returns the first number in V6.  I tried EVERYTHING in the wizard, trust me.

The extra frustrating part is this:  I manually typed the data in V9, identical to the Pasted Values in V5.  No spaces at the end of either.  I even Format Painted them.  Text to Columns returns EXACTLY what I want in V10 from the manually entered data.

So why won't Text to Columns work on the pasted values?????

Solving this issue would save me dozens of hours of work.  This is a small sample from an Access Database; I need to separate out the values in the F column!  Please help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-12-29T22:05:52+00:00

    Hi Tanner,

    Any updates you can share with us?

    Regards,

    Sheen

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