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How do I get a list of First and Last names in a column to automatically be
put in alphabetical order by last name?
Can you help please? A direct answer to would be greatly
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You need to parse out the last name. Create a helper column of just last
name using something like:
=right(a1,len(a1)-find(" ",a1))

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See example.

http://boisgontierjacques.free.fr/fi...iPrenomNom.xls

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Data/ Text to Columns will split your first and last names.
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Rob Bovey created a parsenames file years ago that still seems to work. Ask
him if he still has it for free?

http://www.appspro.com/

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