Sort column by second word in cells
 

First & last name are entered in the cells of column A.

Anyone aware of a procedure that will sort column A by the second word in
thr cells (last name)?

Or perhaps, a procedure that will reverse the position of the 2 words in
each cell (move last name to the first position)?

Or finally, move one of the names into a second cell? (for a column with
about 3,000 entries)

Grasping for straws....

Sort column by second word in cells
 

Generally you would swap the names around using a formula or use DataText to
Columns to split into two separate columns.

To swap see Chip Pearson's site for formulas

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FirstLast.htm

If just two names in the cell I would suggest that Text to Columns with a space
delimiter would be the easiest.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:28:01 -0700,
wrote:

First & last name are entered in the cells of column A.

Anyone aware of a procedure that will sort column A by the second word in
thr cells (last name)?

Or perhaps, a procedure that will reverse the position of the 2 words in
each cell (move last name to the first position)?

Or finally, move one of the names into a second cell? (for a column with
about 3,000 entries)

Grasping for straws....