how to format Doe,John to Doe, John (space after a comma)

[Guest]

I have a downloaded database file with a format of "lastname,firstname" and
would like to change that one column to either one column of say lastname,
firstname (with a space after the comma) or two columns of say col1 lastname,
col2 firstname.

 

[Bill Kuunders]

have a look at :
data
text to columns

 

[John Michl]

You could also do a Find/Replace.

 

[Guest]

Note, Doe,John is in one column, 100 different names will carry the comma in
different places. This will not work but thanks anyway.

 

[Guest]

This would help me if no formula or function is available. Thanks John.

 

[Bill Kuunders]

You can use the comma as the delimiter.
Have a go

 

[Guest]

I will try that and I think it should work. Thanks Bill.

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

I have a downloaded database file with a format of "lastname,firstname" and
would like to change that one column to either one column of say lastname,
firstname (with a space after the comma) or two columns of say col1 lastname,
col2 firstname.

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",", "))

Note the space after the second quoted comma.

The TRIM function is there just in case any of the imported names should happen
to have a space after the comma, so as not to have 2 spaces there.


--ron

 

[Guest]

Ron, it works too, thanks to you, Bill and John. Now I have 3 options.