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Extract a string from a cell
I have a column of data in this format
Lastname, Firstname I want to extract only the Lastname |
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Extract a string from a cell
Try this:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1) Copy down as needed. -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "MrLarrier" wrote in message ... I have a column of data in this format Lastname, Firstname I want to extract only the Lastname |
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Extract a string from a cell
Use this in a helper column:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1) and then copy down as required. Hope this helps. Pete On Jan 13, 4:31*pm, MrLarrier wrote: I have a column of data in this format Lastname, Firstname I want to extract only the Lastname |
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Extract a string from a cell
=LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2)-1) is one option.
Another method is to use Data/ Text to Columns, delimited by commas, and tell it to skip the second column. -- David Biddulph "MrLarrier" wrote in message ... I have a column of data in this format Lastname, Firstname I want to extract only the Lastname |
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