I came across this functionality the other day when I was trying to convert some data I had in a Microsoft Word document into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The problem was that although the data was in columns in the Word document, it wasn’t actually in a table. This means that when I tried to copy a row into Excel, instead of it going into three columns the entire row went into the first column. It was a major problem for me because there was a significant amount of data, and I didn’t have time to try to hand copy it row by row into Excel. Fortunately for me, this is when I found out about the Text to Columns feature in Excel.

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