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I have a excell spead sheet the has a field for named FullName and it
displays like this... Lastname, Firstname

I'm going to use this field to do a mailing and I want to break the field up
and mail out Firstname Lastname

any help from one of you guru's would be appreciated.

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Larry,

Can you expand a bit and show a example of what you want to achieve and
in what cell

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=LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1)

=MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,99)

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I have a excell spead sheet the has a field for named FullName and it
displays like this... Lastname, Firstname

I'm going to use this field to do a mailing and I want to break the field

up
and mail out Firstname Lastname

any help from one of you guru's would be appreciated.

Larry Hughes



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=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND(" ",A2))&", "&LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2)-1)

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