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Opposite of Concatenate
I fully understand how to use concatenate. However I am needing to find out the opposite of it. I have a sheet where column A is the full name of a customer. I want the name broken down into seperate cells for first and last names. What I have: A1 = John Smith What I want B1 = John C1 = Smith Thanks for all your help. -- shane24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shane24's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4770 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=490090 |
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One way:
B1: =LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1) C1: =MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,255) where 255 is just a large enough number to capture the remainder of the text. In article , shane24 wrote: I fully understand how to use concatenate. However I am needing to find out the opposite of it. I have a sheet where column A is the full name of a customer. I want the name broken down into seperate cells for first and last names. What I have: A1 = John Smith What I want B1 = John C1 = Smith Thanks for all your help. |
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B1 =LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)-1)
C1 =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-LEN(B1)-1) Regards, Stefi €˛shane24€¯ ezt Ć*rta: I fully understand how to use concatenate. However I am needing to find out the opposite of it. I have a sheet where column A is the full name of a customer. I want the name broken down into seperate cells for first and last names. What I have: A1 = John Smith What I want B1 = John C1 = Smith Thanks for all your help. -- shane24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shane24's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4770 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=490090 |
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Thank you very much. That works very well. However now that I look at my list a little closer I have some fields that have a middle name or initial. Is there a way that we can make this formula break down into 3 columns for first middle and last?? Thanks -- shane24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shane24's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4770 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=490090 |
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Do you need formulae, or could you just do a one-time
Data/Text to Columns/Delimited/Space character ?? In article , shane24 wrote: Thank you very much. That works very well. However now that I look at my list a little closer I have some fields that have a middle name or initial. Is there a way that we can make this formula break down into 3 columns for first middle and last?? Thanks |
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JE thanks a lot for that. I didn't even realize that function existed in Excel. I have found a few problems with that. I have some customers that have multi word last names such as "De La Cruz" When I use the menu function it seperates at every space and then creates 5 or 6 columns for that name. However ... I do have another very good use for that menu function. It is still very helpful. -- shane24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shane24's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4770 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=490090 |
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 03:25:10 -0600, shane24
wrote: JE thanks a lot for that. I didn't even realize that function existed in Excel. I have found a few problems with that. I have some customers that have multi word last names such as "De La Cruz" When I use the menu function it seperates at every space and then creates 5 or 6 columns for that name. However ... I do have another very good use for that menu function. It is still very helpful. It would be easy to get first and last words; it would be easy to get first; last; and everything else words. But in order to split out multiple word last names, I think you'd have to have a table of words/phrases that are considered to be part of a last name, in order to separate it from the middle name. Is your project such that you want to develop that? --ron |
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