Google-sheets – How to paste a comma separated string over multiple cells in Google Sheets

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Say I have a string of: l,f,x,a,s,f

I would want to paste this every comma-separated value over 6 adjacent cells. How would I do it?

Best Answer

You can paste it into a split function in a cell and it will break it apart into multiple cells for you:

=SPLIT("l,f,x,a,s,f", ",")