What is the make-up of the majority of your data?

If you really have just 2 names, you can use TTC (Text To Columns), where an
"odd-ball" (von Dunst ) could be handled manually.

Check out the Help files for this function, which yields (returns) actual
data within the cells, and not formulas.
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HTH,

RD
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"wahamler" wrote in message
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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.