Hello Everyone,

I'm a bit new to this discussion group, so please forgive me for any errors.
I have an unusual question for everyone in the community. I am working on
designing a customer list spreadsheet and one of the things that crossed my
mind was the way in which we enter a customer's name into the spreadsheet.

Currently, we are using a single column, which has the first, middle, and
last name listing into a single field. In other office environments that I
have been in, i have noticed that there are separate columns for each of the
three portions of the name i mentioned above.

Is there any particular advantage to having 3 columns for a customer name
versus having 1 column for a customer name.

I'd greatly appreciate the combined knowledge here to help me figure out the
advantages or disadvantages of using either methods.

Hopefully, what i've written makes sense, if not please tell me and I'll try
to explain some more. Thank you ahead of time for any response that you make
to help me out