Tricky, I like it! But Microsoft should make things easier by introducing VB
InStrRev as a worksheet function!

Regards,
Stefi


€žBob Phillips€� ezt Ã*rta:

Use this formula to get the last name in a separate column

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
","")))))

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Tee" wrote in message
...
Please help I have a very long list of names all typed in one cell ie:

Miss L Rayner
Mr J C F Clark
Mr P R Brown
Mr D L P Race
Ms Peal

I need to sort this list by the last name.

I can sort this via Data Text to columns, but this give the surname in
either column 3, 4 or 5... is there anyway to overcome this and sort all
those after the last space?