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Bob Phillips
 
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Default Separate Middle Initial From First Name

=if(ISNUMBER(FIND(" ",B2)),MID(B2,FIND(" ",B2)+1,99),"")

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"Charles" wrote in message
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Hi All:

I have a list of names stored in MS Excel. Last name is in first column

but
first name and middle initial are in second column. The file looks like:

Last name First Name
West Joe
Hellygard David J.
Huang Nancy H.

Now I want to separate first name and middle initial and move middle

initial
to third column. The problem is that the length of first name is not

same.
Definitely I cannot use Text to Column. Any help or suggestions are very
appreciated.


Charles