How to swap columns in a Word list?

I have a Word document containing a list of about 1,000 songs—it currently looks like this:
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song

But what I actually need is for the list to be formatted like this:
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist

Is there any way to actually pull this off within Word itself?

restlessdrifter12 said:I have a Word document containing a list of about 1,000 songs—it currently looks like this:
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song

But what I actually need is for the list to be formatted like this:
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist

Is there any way to actually pull this off within Word itself?

Honestly, you're probably better off just using Excel.
Copy the whole list over to Excel and it should land in one single column.
Just use the "Text to Columns" feature and set the delimiter to "-".
That gives you two separate columns, which you can then merge back together into a third one, just with the order flipped.
Use a formula like =song_column & " - " & artist_column

It’s overkill if you're only doing five songs, but when you're staring down a massive list, the manual work grows exponentially.

I know there are definitely some apps out there that can handle that, I just can't wrap my brain around the names right now

restlessdrifter12 said:I have a Word document containing a list of about 1,000 songs—it currently looks like this:
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song
Artist – Song

But what I actually need is for the list to be formatted like this:
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist
Song – Artist

Is there any way to actually pull this off within Word itself?

First, select the entire list (Ctrl + A).
Go to Table -> Convert -> Text to Table.
Set the number of columns to 2.
Under "Other," type a hyphen (-) into the box.
Hit OK.

Now you should have a two-column table.

To swap the order, click at the very top of one column to select it, then just drag it over to the other side.

Select the first column and go to Table -> Insert -> Columns to the Right.

You'll end up with an empty column right in the middle.

In the first cell of that middle column, type " - ".
Highlight that cell and hit Ctrl + C.
Then, select all the remaining cells in that middle column (skip the first one) and hit Ctrl + V.

Click the top-left corner of the table to select the whole thing, then go to Table -> Select -> Table.
Navigate to Table -> Convert -> Convert to Text.
Choose the "Other" option and simply press the spacebar in the input box.
Hit OK.

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