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Old April 9th, 2009, 04:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
dleo
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Default splitting cells

I have a list of names in Column A that include both a first name and last
name. No middle initials or suffixes.

Is there a way to easily split the first name and last name into 2 columns?

Thanks in advance
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Old April 9th, 2009, 04:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
Alan
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Default splitting cells

Assuming there's a space between the names,

=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)) for the first name

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1)) for the surname

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Alan.
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I have a list of names in Column A that include both a first name and last
name. No middle initials or suffixes.

Is there a way to easily split the first name and last name into 2
columns?

Thanks in advance


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Old April 9th, 2009, 04:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
RonaldoOneNil
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Default splitting cells

Select your column of data and then on the toolbar select Data - Text to
Columns and follow the steps

"dleo" wrote:

I have a list of names in Column A that include both a first name and last
name. No middle initials or suffixes.

Is there a way to easily split the first name and last name into 2 columns?

Thanks in advance

 




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