Buc2 wrote:NYBF wrote:
I had no idea. Thanks for the tip. Seems like Google Docs has the same feature, "Split text to columns". It's grayed out on that sheet. But that might be because it's read only. Might be able to do it if he made himself his own copy.
Yeah...if it's a read only file, you can't do anything with the data without saving it as your own file first. However, what mdb is talking about cannot be done with those CBS Sports sheets. Those are embedded in the webpage and cannot be extracted except as text, html or a screen print.
Here's an example of one of their, so-called, spreadsheets that I think he's talking about:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/pros ... s/2017/all
Now, he could copy that data in html format be selecting the text and pasting it directly into an Excel worksheet. It will even keep the hyperlinks that are embedded on the webpage, so if you click on the players name in the Excel spreadsheet, it will jump to the embedded link if you have an Internet connection. Anyway, from there, he could do all the worksheet functions I was talking about above, i.e., split the names into 2 columns (1 for first name and 1 for last name). That would be a lot of work, though, because he'd have to copy/paste every page of which there are 40 pages in the link I posted above.
I copied/pasted the 1st page of data from that website spreadsheet and separated the first/last names into separate columns using the Text to Columns Wizard. Here's what it looks like:
This is the winner.