Try this with the name in B5

First word
=IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",B5)),B5,IF(RIGHT(LEFT(B5,FIND(" ",B5)-1))=",",LEFT(B5,FIND(" ",B5)-2),LEFT(B5,FIND(" ",B5)-1)))

All except first word
=IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",B5)),"",MID(B5,FIND(" ",B5)+1,1024))

See also DateRefiner
http://www.rondebruin.nl/datarefiner.htm



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Regards Ron de Bruin
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"wahamler" wrote in message ...
I have a colum of data with names both first name and last. is there a
formula to pull out the first name and one to pull out the last name? a cell
might current read "John Smith" i want to separate the name so i have one
field reading "John" and the next field reading "Smith". The names will vary
in character length so i cannot use a simple left() command.