How to separate text and numbers from one cell into two columns?

If you have a column of text strings which are composed of text and numbers, now, you would like to separate the text and numbers from one cell into two different cells as following screenshot shown. In Excel, you can finish this task with these methods.

Method 1: Separate text and numbers with formulas in Excel

Method 2: Separate text and numbers with Flash Fill in Excel 2013 and later version

Method 3: Separate text and numbers which are mixed irregular with User Defined Function

Method 4: Separate text and numbers into two columns with Kutools for Excel

Method 1: Separate text and numbers with formulas in Excel

With the following formulas, you can extract the text and numbers from the cell into two separated cells. Please do as follows:

1. Enter this formula into a blank cell – C3 where you want to place the result: =LEFT(A3,MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A3&"0123456789"))-1), (A3 is the cell which contains the text string you want to separate), and then press Enter key to get only the text from the cell A2. See screenshot:

2. And then you can extract the numbers from the cell by applying this formula: =RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A3&"0123456789"))+1),( A3 is the cell which contains the text string you want to separate), enter this formula into cell D3 which you want to place the numbers, and press Enter key, then you will get the numbers as this:

3. Then select cell C3:D3, and drag the fill handle over to the cells that you want to contain these formulas, and you can see the text and numbers have been separated into different cells:

Split or Separate text strings into individual text and number columns:

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Method 2: Separate text and numbers with Flash Fill in Excel 2013 and later version

With the above formulas, you just can separate the text and numbers if the text is before the numbers. To separate the text string which number is before the text, you can use the Flash Fill feature of Excel 2013 and later version.

If you have Excel 2013 and later version, the Flash Fill feature may help you to fill the text in one column and numbers in another column, please do as this:

1. Type the numbers of your first text string completely into adjacent blank cell - B3, see screenshot:

2. And then select the range B3:B7 where you want to fill the numbers, and click Data > Flash Fill, and only the numbers have been filled in the cells at once, see screenshot:

3. Then enter the text string completely into cell C3, see screenshot:

4. And select the cell range C3:C7 where you want to fill the text only, click Data > Flash Fill as well as step 2, and you can see, the text has been separated as follows:

Tip: You also can drag the filled handle to the range you want to use, and then click Auto Fill Option and check Flash Fill.

Method 3: Separate text and numbers which are mixed irregular with User Defined Function

If you have some text string which are mixed text and numbers irregularly like following data shown, Excel does not support the general feature to solve this problem, but, you can create User Defined Function to finish this.

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: separate text and numbers into different cells from one cell

Public Function SplitText(pWorkRng As Range, pIsNumber As Boolean) As String
'Updateby Extendoffice
Dim xLen As Long
Dim xStr As String
xLen = VBA.Len(pWorkRng.Value)
For i = 1 To xLen
    xStr = VBA.Mid(pWorkRng.Value, i, 1)
    If ((VBA.IsNumeric(xStr) And pIsNumber) Or (Not (VBA.IsNumeric(xStr)) And Not (pIsNumber))) Then
        SplitText = SplitText + xStr
    End If
Next
End Function

3. Then save and close this code, go back to the worksheet, enter this formula =SplitText(A3,FALSE) into a blank cell to get the only the text string and then drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to fill this formula, see screenshot:

4. And thne, type formula =SplitText(A3,TRUE) into another cell and drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to fill this formula to get the numbers, see screenshot:

Note: The result will be incorrect if there are decimal numbers in the text string.

Method 4: Separate text and numbers into two columns with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel, with its powerful tool- Split Cells utility, you can quickly split the text strings into two columns: one is number, and another is text.

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Select the data range that you want to separate the text and number.

2. Then click Kutools > Merge & Split > Split Cells, see screenshot:

3. In the Split Cells dialog box, select Split to Columns option under the Type section, and then check Text and number from the Split by section, see screenshot:

4. Then click Ok button, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you to select a cell to output the result, see screenshot:

5. Click OK button, and the text strings in the selection have been separated into two columns as following screenshot shown:

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