Split delimited entries into new rows in Access

Question

So someone gave me a spreadsheet of orders, the unique value of each order is the PO, the person that gave me the spreadsheet is lazy and decided for orders with multiple PO

Answer 1

About about this:

1) Import the source data into a new Access table called SourceData.

2) Create a new query, go straight into SQL View and add the following code:

SELECT * INTO ImportedData
FROM (
  SELECT PO, Vendor, State
  FROM SourceData
  WHERE InStr(PO, '/') = 0
  UNION ALL
  SELECT Left(PO, InStr(PO, '/') - 1), Vendor, State
  FROM SourceData
  WHERE InStr(PO, '/') > 0
  UNION ALL
  SELECT Mid(PO, InStr(PO, '/') + 1), Vendor, State
  FROM SourceData
  WHERE InStr(PO, '/') > 0) AS CleanedUp;

This is a 'make table' query in Access jargon (albeit with a nested union query); for an 'append' query instead, alter the top two lines to be

INSERT INTO ImportedData
SELECT * FROM (

(The rest doesn't change.) The difference is that re-running a make table query will clear whatever was already in the destination table, whereas an append query adds to any existing data.

3) Run the query.