How would I split text separated by commas into new cells?

sweta22

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06/13/23 edited 06/13/23 in Formulas and Functions

Example, in one cell I have the text "Zach, Max, Prince, Bob, Rick and more"

How do I split that to have each name in each column, all on the same row?

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Paul Newcome ✭✭✭✭✭✭

06/13/23

Take a look through the comments here:
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/106300/extract-function-select-data-between-defined-tags

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