albatross. 1  A metaphor for a dead weight or burden that one must carry, especially when the burden is not a literal one but a stigma of some kind that one cannot easily discard or throw off. The name comes from a story about a sailor who killed an albatross that was following his ship, an act thought to bring bad luck upon the ship.
Run the Remove Characters tool by clicking on its icon under the Ablebits Data tab in Excel. To remove characters select the range with the cells that contain values you want to delete. Expand the group Remove characters or substrings. You can select one of three radio buttons according to your task.
Click the Delimited radio button to have Excel separate data entries using a delimiter. Click Next.. Step 6. Click the check box with the delimiter you used to separate data entries in your text file. For example, if your text file contained first; second; third; ..., then click the semi-colon check box.tep 8. Click on cell A1, type in a heading for the data in column A, and then type in headings for the rest of the columns. Step 9. Click and drag to highlight all of the headings on the first row.