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I have a column that displays a person's lastname,firstname.
How can I separate it, so that one column is just the last name, and another
is the firstname.
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Use Data | Text to Columns and use the comma as the delimiter

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I have a column that displays a person's lastname,firstname.
How can I separate it, so that one column is just the last name, and
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is the firstname.



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Assuming your name is in A1.........
This will pull out the LastName.........=LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1,1)-1)
And this will pull out the FirstName.. =MID(A1,FIND(",",A1,1)+1,99)

Then just copy these formulas down as far as you have data in column A.


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How can I separate it, so that one column is just the last name, and

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