We received an excel spread sheet with full names within a single column. We
need to separate into first and last name columns.

Select the column
Data|Text to columns
delimited by space

Watch out for those names with more than two parts!

daveylee wrote:

We received an excel spread sheet with full names within a single column. We
need to separate into first and last name columns.

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Dave Peterson

You can also take a look here
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm


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If your names are First Name Last Name with a space between them then
for the first name

=LEFT($A$10,FIND(" ",$A$10,1)-1)

for the last name.

=RIGHT($A$10,FIND(" ",$A$10,1))

Copy down your list.

HTH

Steve


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