Hi Thank you so much for your help , I am still stcuk a bit I do not want to
separete the name but to look up in another cell

Cell A =A bdal-Ghaffar, NadyN14264504Middle Eastern and Islamic StudiesPHD

Cell B = Abdal-Ghaffar, Nady

Cell C = look up B in A and return to C

Thank you

"JBeaucaire" wrote:


Assuming that string is in A2 and the name is always followed by a
comma, this formula will pull out the name:

=LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2)-1)


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