Thanks, this was really helpful. I didn't even know there was such a function
as TRIM before! Thank you very much.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

They can still be used but it is better to use MID instead of RIGHT perhaps

=TRIM(LEFT(A1,SEARCH("and",A1)-1))


for first name


=TRIM(MID(A1,SEARCH("and",A1)+3,255))


for second


copy both formulas down and then copy and paste special as values in place
to make them, independent of the source string


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"Richard_123" wrote in message
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Hello,
In Excel 2007, I have a series of cells with the names of two people in
them
in the format of "Person One and Person Two". Is there any function which
could put each person's name in a different cell, by looking for the word
"and" to use to decide where to split the text?
I know that if each persons name was the same length, I could use the LEFT
and RIGHT functions, but as name lengths vary, I cannot use these
functions
for this.
Thank you.