unconcatenate?

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Patty via OfficeKB.com

I have over a thousand cells with last name,first name. I want two different
cells with last name in one and first name in the other (minus the comma).
Any ideas? (no VB please!)

Thanks.
 
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Patty via OfficeKB.com

Actually, I don't have a comma. It's just LastName FirstName MiddleInitial
all separated by spaces
 
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David Hepner

Try this:

Assuming the name is in cell A1:

B1 =LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1,1)-1)
C1 =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(",",A1,1)-1)
 
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David Hepner

This relpy is for Lastname, Firstname.

David Hepner said:
Try this:

Assuming the name is in cell A1:

B1 =LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1,1)-1)
C1 =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(",",A1,1)-1)
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Mike

Dump it into Word. Convert table to text. Convert text to table and use a
space as the separator then dump to excel
 
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Dave Peterson

How about just selecting the column
data|text to columns
delimited
by space

(leave enough room to the right to accept all your fields)
 
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Myrna Larson

Text-to-columns will fill the bill as long as ALL cells include three parts.
If, in some, the middle initial is missing, for those rows, you'll end up with
the last name in the column intended for the middle initial.

If this is a problem, you can perhaps solve it quickly by sorting on the 3rd
column (should be the last name). Those with no last name will go to the
bottom of the list. For those rows, you can then insert cells between the
first and last names, to provide for the blank middle initial
 
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Myrna Larson

Oops... I missed the part of your original message where you describe the data
order. My first reply was based on the erroneous assumption that it was First
MI Last (which is a more common situation when all data is in one cell with no
comma delimiter).

Since the order is Last First MI, a row without a middle initial is not a
problem.

Text-to-columns will fill the bill as long as ALL cells include three parts.
If, in some, the middle initial is missing, for those rows, you'll end up with
the last name in the column intended for the middle initial.

If this is a problem, you can perhaps solve it quickly by sorting on the 3rd
column (should be the last name). Those with no last name will go to the
bottom of the list. For those rows, you can then insert cells between the
first and last names, to provide for the blank middle initial

Click to expand...
 
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