How do I paste text into Excel so each letter is in its own cell?

Answer 1

You can't copy one set of letters in one go from a single cell or other source and then do a paste that will put them into separate cells. There are more complex ways of doing it. You could paste all the letters into one cell and then use formulas to extract each letter individually to each cell. Text functions like MID can be good for that. Another approach, which is also slow and complex, is to have all the letters separated by commas in a text file, and then import the file into and Excel file and it will read the commas as breaks for each cell. Those are very long-winded methods and not really suited to what you probably want to do, which is probably a quick copy and paste like you do for other things. Unfortunately though, there is no simple fast way to do it.