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+<meta>
+      <topic id="textscalc01text2columnsxml" indexer="include">
+         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Text to Columns</title>
+         <filename>/text/scalc/01/text2columns.xhp</filename>
+      </topic>
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+<body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id8004394"><bookmark_value>text to columns</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:TextToColumns" id="bm_id1029200802260951" localize="false"/>
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+<section id="t2cheader">
+<h1 id="hd_id2300180"><link href="text/scalc/01/text2columns.xhp">Text to Columns</link></h1>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id655232" role="paragraph"><variable id="text2columns">Opens the Text to Columns dialog, where you enter settings to expand the contents of selected cells to multiple cells.</variable></paragraph>
+</section>
+      <section id="howtoget">
+         <embed href="text/scalc/00/00000412.xhp#text2columns"/>
+      </section>
+      <h2 id="hd_id9599597">To expand cell contents to multiple cells</h2>
+      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2021546" role="paragraph">You can expand cells that contain comma separated values (CSV) into multiple cells in the same row. </paragraph>
+      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2623981" role="paragraph">For example, cell A1 contains the comma separated values <item type="literal">1,2,3,4</item>, and cell A2 contains the text <item type="literal">A,B,C,D</item>. </paragraph>
+      <list type="ordered">
+         <listitem>
+            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7242042" role="paragraph">Select the cell or cells that you want to expand.</paragraph>
+         </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id6999420" role="paragraph">Choose <emph>Data - Text to Columns</emph>.</paragraph>
+            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id6334116" role="paragraph">You see the Text to Columns dialog.</paragraph>
+         </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9276406" role="paragraph">Select the separator options. The preview shows how the current cell contents will be transformed into multiple cells.</paragraph>
+         </listitem>
+      </list>
+      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8523819" role="paragraph">You can select a fixed width and then click the ruler on the preview to set cell breakup positions.</paragraph>
+      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1517380" role="paragraph">You can select or enter separator characters to define the positions of breaking points. The separator characters are removed from the resulting cell contents.</paragraph>
+      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7110812" role="paragraph">In the example, you select the comma as a delimiter character. Cells A1 and A2 will be expanded to four columns each. A1 contains 1, B1 contains 2, and so on.</paragraph>
+      <section id="relatedtopics">
+         <embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_files.xhp#csv_files"/>
+         <embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_formula.xhp#csv_formula"/>
+      </section>
+   </body>
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