Copy email addresses from Outlook to Excel & separate name and address

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Copying email addresses from Outlook to Excel can be a bit harder than it should be. It all depends how it looks after the paste from Outlook (or other email package) into Excel.

If you are trying to take a list of email addresses in the To line into Excel you may experience the following problems:
- All the names and emails addresses appear in one column divided by something like a semi colon (;)
- or both of the above

This video shows a quick way to address this issue

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⏲Time Stamps
00:00 Getting emails addresses into Excel
00:23 Getting addresses into its own cells
00:49 Changing cells from rows to columns
01:23 Remove name from the email address

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Addressing the problems:
All Names and Email addresses appear in one Excel Column

Occasionally this happens, and it is in a row and you want it to be in a column. As shown below when we take Outlook and copy the email addresses into Excel in appears in one cell

Two steps are required:

Step 1- Get all email addresses into their own cells

Get all the email addresses to be in their own cells- you can do this using the Text to Columns tool and splitting them based on whatever differentiated one email from another. This is typically a semi colon (;)

Step 2- turn email addresses from a row into a column

Once you have everything in their own cells you may prefer that it appears as a list instead of across a row.

For this you can use the Transpose tool

copying email addresses from outlook to excel

This may be sufficient for you but perhaps you are left with something like this

in a cell where you need the name and the email address to be in their own columns

Separating the names from the email addresses

There are a couple of ways of doing this.

The easiest way, if you have Excel 2013 or higher is to use the Flash Fill Option.

As shown below, once you type out the first email address (or name) Flash Fill will follow the pattern and extract the pieces you want.

copying email addresses from outlook to excel

The second way would be to use the Text to Columns feature again, splitting the cells based on the ““. This would work but would leave you with an email address with a “)” at the end. You can use a find and replace to replace the “” with nothing.

Another way would be to use a combination of FIND, LEFT, RIGHT, and MID to separate the names from the email addresses.

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