Many small businesses use Microsoft Excel for day-to-day accounting and other spreadsheet tasks. Occasionally, you might find it necessary to copy and paste a column of data from one Excel workbook to ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

Copying data from one Excel column to another often means an additional task; you must adjust the target column’s width. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to do so using Paste Special. When you copy ...