Split text
This is a series on what Google Spreadsheets can do that Excel can’t. SPLIT(string, delimiter) splits a string using a delimiter. So if you have “one,two,three,four” in cell A1, you could split that into 4 cells using =SPLIT(A1,",") That’s similar to Data > Text to Columns, except that if the original data changed, Text to Columns does not revise the output. SPLIT can give you dynamic text-to-columns. This is pretty useful when processing text data, in three ways: ...