Switching Names Around
 

Hey gurus-
I am getting a list of names imported into Excel. All the names are in the
order of LAST NAME FIRST MI/[SPOUSE] FIRST [SPOUSE] MI. All of them have
their last name at the beginning, and they're all merged into the same cell.
I am trying to print out mailers, so I need the 1st name moved to the back
of the line so it prints out normally. How would I write a macro to do this?
The only way I can think of is to signal is off the very 1st SPACE-
everything before that space gets added to the end of the line. Is this
possible to do? How do I do this? I'm not very good at VB, so I don't know
where to even start on this one...
example-
My Data- Smith John D/Jane A

I need- John D & Jane A Smith

Thanks!
D

Switching Names Around
 

You don't need VBA, this formula will do it if all structured as per your
example

=SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,255)&" "&LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)),"/"," & ")

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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"D" wrote in message news:9%hUc.58512$Oi.14233@fed1read04...
Hey gurus-
I am getting a list of names imported into Excel. All the names are in the
order of LAST NAME FIRST MI/[SPOUSE] FIRST [SPOUSE] MI. All of them have
their last name at the beginning, and they're all merged into the same
cell.
I am trying to print out mailers, so I need the 1st name moved to the back
of the line so it prints out normally. How would I write a macro to do
this?
The only way I can think of is to signal is off the very 1st SPACE-
everything before that space gets added to the end of the line. Is this
possible to do? How do I do this? I'm not very good at VB, so I don't
know
where to even start on this one...
example-
My Data- Smith John D/Jane A

I need- John D & Jane A Smith

Thanks!
D