You can use the comma as the delimiter.
Have a go
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Greetings from New Zealand
Bill K
"asuncionw" wrote in message
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Note, Doe,John is in one column, 100 different names will carry the comma
in
different places. This will not work but thanks anyway.

"Bill Kuunders" wrote:

have a look at :
data
text to columns

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Greetings from New Zealand
Bill K

"asuncionw" wrote in message
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I have a downloaded database file with a format of "lastname,firstname"
and
would like to change that one column to either one column of say
lastname,
firstname (with a space after the comma) or two columns of say col1
lastname,
col2 firstname.