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Hello,
I am a teacher and many times I receive names of students in excel files for example as John Doe. I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to convert the name to Doe, John in an easy step so the name can be alphabetized. If you know please let me know at american @ pressenter . com Thanks |
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One way (assuming only 2 names):
=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,255) & ", " & LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1) In article <60ff037be7cc5@uwe, "american" <u22419@uwe wrote: Hello, I am a teacher and many times I receive names of students in excel files for example as John Doe. I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to convert the name to Doe, John in an easy step so the name can be alphabetized. If you know please let me know at american @ pressenter . com Thanks |
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american wrote:
Hello, I am a teacher and many times I receive names of students in excel files for example as John Doe. I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to convert the name to Doe, John in an easy step so the name can be alphabetized. If you know please let me know at american @ pressenter . com Thanks I would suggest using the text to column feature and separate the name into two columns FirstName and LastName. This will allow you to sort by either field. Here's a link to a sample on the MS site. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...498511033.aspx gls858 |
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Must get confusing with double first name like "Nancy Jo"
or compound last names like "van Buren" First And Last Names http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm Unless you are trying to save space it probably would be easier to work with across applications if you used separate columns. The main advantage to using a comma is the hope that someone doesn't have both a very long last name *and* firstname. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "gls858" wrote in message ... american wrote: Hello, I am a teacher and many times I receive names of students in excel files for example as John Doe. I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to convert the name to Doe, John in an easy step so the name can be alphabetized. If you know please let me know at american @ pressenter . com Thanks I would suggest using the text to column feature and separate the name into two columns FirstName and LastName. This will allow you to sort by either field. Here's a link to a sample on the MS site. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...498511033.aspx gls858 |
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David McRitchie wrote:
Must get confusing with double first name like "Nancy Jo" or compound last names like "van Buren" First And Last Names http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm Unless you are trying to save space it probably would be easier to work with across applications if you used separate columns. The main advantage to using a comma is the hope that someone doesn't have both a very long last name *and* firstname. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "gls858" wrote in message ... american wrote: Hello, I am a teacher and many times I receive names of students in excel files for example as John Doe. I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to convert the name to Doe, John in an easy step so the name can be alphabetized. If you know please let me know at american @ pressenter . com Thanks I would suggest using the text to column feature and separate the name into two columns FirstName and LastName. This will allow you to sort by either field. Here's a link to a sample on the MS site. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...498511033.aspx gls858 Yes, I can see where my suggestion wouldn't work in some cases. I hadn't thought about the double names. Thanks for pointing that out. gls858 |
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