I have received a data base with members' names. Unfortunately the list has
the first and last name in one column. I will be adding names and sorting
names in alphabetical order. How do I separate the first and last name so
that I have two distinct columns -- one for the first name and one for the
last name? Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

Look at DataText To Columns, with a separator of space or comma, depending
upon the original data.

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HTH

Bob

"mllasalle" wrote in message
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I have received a data base with members' names. Unfortunately the list
has
the first and last name in one column. I will be adding names and sorting
names in alphabetical order. How do I separate the first and last name so
that I have two distinct columns -- one for the first name and one for the
last name? Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

hi
an example of your data would have been nice but....
lets say we have Bart Simpson in a2
in B2 enter...
=LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2,1))
in C2 enter.....
=MID(A2,FIND(" ",A2,1)+1,99)

regards
FSt1


"mllasalle" wrote:

I have received a data base with members' names. Unfortunately the list has
the first and last name in one column. I will be adding names and sorting
names in alphabetical order. How do I separate the first and last name so
that I have two distinct columns -- one for the first name and one for the
last name? Thanks for your assistance in this matter.