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Harlan Grove
 
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Default splitting data from 1 column into multilple?

"CLR" wrote...
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In C1 put........ =MID(A1,1,FIND(" ",A1,1))


This includes the space after the first name.

In D1 put.........=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1),99)


This includes the space just before the last name.

In E1 put.........=MID(B1,1,FIND(" ",B1,1))


Same comment as for C1.

In F1 put.........=MID(B1,FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1,1)),LEN(B1)-6-5)


FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1,1)) always returns the position of the *first* space
in B1. Use FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1)+1). The 3rd argument to FIND is begin
search at rather than after.