How to use Flash Fill to parse characters across multiple columns in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product ...

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your ...

Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

Microsoft Excel's Formula by Example helps automate repetitive tasks in structured tables in Excel for the Web. The tool is similar to Flash Fill, though it generates dynamic formulas that update with ...

Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...