how to separate this into columns?

bigdan

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This information was in columns in a PDF. When I try to paste it into Excel it goes into one big column. How would you separate this?

This information below should be 5 rows, 10 columns. The last column is email address, which in 4 out of 5 cases is empty.

The first row should read like this (I put a / where there should be a space here) :

GP Psychotherapy / John / Grisham187 Queenston St. / / St. Catherines / L2R 3A3 / 905-688-5125 / 905-688-9648 / /


Here's the data when I simply copy and paste:

GP Psychotherapy John Grisham 1000 Zoo St. St. Catherines L2R 3A3 111-222-3333 111-222-3334 GP Psychotherapy Yaxley Dolohov 900 Yonge St. Walkerton N0G 2V0 222-333-4444 222-333-4445 bajurny@wightman.caGP Psychotherapy Yung Jam 1150 Bloor St Woodville K0M 2T0 333-444-5555 333-444-5556 GP Psychotherapy Sog Bedoo 90 John Street South Stratford N5A 2YB 666-777-8888 666-777-8889 GP Psychotherapy Falki Looks 1900 Wellington St. Unit 201 Kingston K7L 3E4 777-888-9999 777-888-9990
 

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If this is the ONLY data then you can just separate it using the excel's built-in "text to columns" feature in "Data" tab of excel program. Then later you can use any type of string concatenation operators. VBA will be an overkill here but let me know what is the volume of task at hand.
 
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