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I have a column that has 1st name and last name. I want to change the column
to be last name, 1st name. Is there a way to do this without having to do
each line of the column individually?
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Default 1st name last name to last name, 1st name

Look he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm

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I have a column that has 1st name and last name. I want to change the
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to be last name, 1st name. Is there a way to do this without having to do
each line of the column individually?


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=MID(A1&", "&A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,LEN(A1)+1)


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I have a column that has 1st name and last name. I want to change the column
to be last name, 1st name. Is there a way to do this without having to do
each line of the column individually?

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