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Althea
 
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Default Splitting firstName from Surname




You could use this formula for surname

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)))


Many thanks for all the different suggestions, problem solved
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Althea


 
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