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Excel | Power Query Split by Row

Written by Myles Arnott | Aug 10, 2026, 9:30:00 AM
A powerful, yet little-known feature

 

Working with multiple values in a cell

Ever found yourself faced with this kind of data in Excel? Multiple values are being stored in a single cell. This is notoriously difficult to handle in Excel.


That is, unless you know the Split by Row feature in Power Query.

In this brief walk through video I show you the few simple clicks to transform this data into a useable structure.

Once it has transformed the data I then load it directly into a Pivot Table and spin up a quick Pivot Chart to visualise the output.