Transpose into new columns; Excel - vba

Question

I could use some help in inventorying some online purchases.
I would like the information in column A to be separated into the following:
Vendor name; item description; eBay item #; purchase price; shipping cost; purchase date
example:
ldean747; MEN'S WILLIAM BAY" "; 260725743398; 10.50; 0.00; 01/28/11
I'm getting hung up because some of the products do not have shipping cost (which would be the second dollar amount you see in the picture).
Any easy way to do this rather than going through and copy paste, transpose on each purchase?

Answer 1

You have a couple of challenges here
dynamic data set format: 3 text fields followed by 1 or 2 numeric fields (vertically)
multiple field seperators / delimiters across your data set
1st field: '()''
2nd field: '|'
3rd field: ':'
You could now start to create formulas which extract the relevant parts of each field using functions like =LEFT(), =MID(), =RIGHT(), =SEARCH(), etc. which for some cases (3rd field) is pretty straightforward, for others can get a bit complex ...
Concretely - the fields can be identified as following:
if the cell above is numeric AND I am alpha THEN I am 1st field
if the cell above is 1st field THEN I am 2nd field
if the cell above is 2nd field THEN I am 3rd field
if the cell above is 3rd field THEN I am product cost
if the cell above is numeric AND I am numeric THEN I am shipping cost
numeric / alpha: =TYPE(), extracting substrings seperated by seperation characters is well covered here at SO
Alternatively you could start to write a VBA program that does the same job for you
meta code:
loop through all rows
determine record type
process record type
So give it a try and come back with more questions.