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Default How do I seperate a full name field out into three seperate columns?

=LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1)

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," "&D1,""),B1&", ","")

=MID(A1,FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",",~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
","")))),99)

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The name field is in the following format: Abbott, Susan H.


I would like to break it out into three seperate columns like below.

Last Name First Name Middle Initial
Abbott Susan H.