1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*52ac0773SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * with the License. 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The preview shows how the current cell contents will be transformed into multiple cells.</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8523819" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">You can select a fixed width and then click the ruler on the preview to set cell breakup positions.</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1517380" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">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> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7110812" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">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> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir <section id="relatedtopics"> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_files.xhp#csv_files"/> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_formula.xhp#csv_formula"/> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>