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Separate First Name MI and Last Name into three Cells
I have a list of names in column A that contain the First Name, then a space,
the Middle Initial then a space and the last name. Some cells in column A only contain a First name and a Last Name such as: John A Doe Jane Smith Bill Jones Sue Z Que I want to separate the text into three columns; B, C & D. Column B = First Name, Column C = MI and Column D = Last Name. I know how to use the MID, LEFT and RIGHT functions, and I know there must be some way of finding the spaces in a cell and separating the text from the spaces. Thanks for your help. |
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Separate First Name MI and Last Name into three Cells
Take a look at DataText To Column. That will separate the names but the
names with no Middle Name or initial will be split into 2 coumns HTH Sandy "DBavirsha" wrote: I have a list of names in column A that contain the First Name, then a space, the Middle Initial then a space and the last name. Some cells in column A only contain a First name and a Last Name such as: John A Doe Jane Smith Bill Jones Sue Z Que I want to separate the text into three columns; B, C & D. Column B = First Name, Column C = MI and Column D = Last Name. I know how to use the MID, LEFT and RIGHT functions, and I know there must be some way of finding the spaces in a cell and separating the text from the spaces. Thanks for your help. |
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Separate First Name MI and Last Name into three Cells
Check out Chip Pearson's site for help on this.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:35:01 -0700, DBavirsha wrote: I have a list of names in column A that contain the First Name, then a space, the Middle Initial then a space and the last name. Some cells in column A only contain a First name and a Last Name such as: John A Doe Jane Smith Bill Jones Sue Z Que I want to separate the text into three columns; B, C & D. Column B = First Name, Column C = MI and Column D = Last Name. I know how to use the MID, LEFT and RIGHT functions, and I know there must be some way of finding the spaces in a cell and separating the text from the spaces. Thanks for your help. |
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Separate First Name MI and Last Name into three Cells
Thanks so much for the assistance. I got the information I needed from your
web site. Thanks also for the link to the website. It is loaded with Excel help and I will refer to it often. Dave "Gord Dibben" wrote: Check out Chip Pearson's site for help on this. http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:35:01 -0700, DBavirsha wrote: I have a list of names in column A that contain the First Name, then a space, the Middle Initial then a space and the last name. Some cells in column A only contain a First name and a Last Name such as: John A Doe Jane Smith Bill Jones Sue Z Que I want to separate the text into three columns; B, C & D. Column B = First Name, Column C = MI and Column D = Last Name. I know how to use the MID, LEFT and RIGHT functions, and I know there must be some way of finding the spaces in a cell and separating the text from the spaces. Thanks for your help. |
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