How to split multiline cell contents into separated rows/columns in Excel

With the Text to Columns function, you can split multiline cell contents into separate columns.

1. Select the cells with multiline contents you want to split to separate columns, then click Data > Text to Columns. See screenshot:

2. In the first Convert Text to Columns Wizard dialog box, select Delimited option, and then click the Next button.

3. In the second Convert Text to Columns Wizard dialog box, only check the Other box, hold the Alt key and enter number 0010 into the following blank box. Then click the Next button. See screenshot:

4. In the third Convert Text to Columns Wizard dialog box, select a cell for placing the split contents in the Destination box, and finally click the Finish button.

Then the selected multiline cells’ contents are split into separated columns as below screenshot shown.

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