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The preview shows how the current cell contents will be transformed into multiple cells.</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_files.xhp#csv_files"/> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/csv_formula.xhp#csv_formula"/> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 65