Working with first and last names

[David Bateman]

I have the first and last names in one cell and would like to extract them
into a format that I can sort such as this "lastname, firstname". Is there a
way to do this?

 

[Bob Phillips]

Data>Text To Columns with a space delimiter

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Bob Phillips

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[Guest]

Hi,

While the delimited option suggested by Bob is the best way to accomplish
this, a formula solution (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) is:

The formula assumed that the nameis in cell A16 (For e.g. Ashish Mathur)

MID(A16,MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(MID(A16,ROW($2:$13),1),PROPER(MID(A16,ROW($2:$13),1))),0)+2,255)&",
"&MID(A16,MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(MID(A16,ROW($1:$13),1),PROPER(MID(A16,ROW($1:$13),1))),0),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(MID(A16,ROW($2:$13),1),PROPER(MID(A16,ROW($2:$13),1))),0))

Regards,

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

I have the first and last names in one cell and would like to extract them
into a format that I can sort such as this "lastname, firstname". Is there a
way to do this?

Assuming you have no titles or suffixes, you could extract them in the format
you specify in various ways, some of which have already been posted.

You could also download and install Longre's free morefunc.xll add-in from
http://xcell05.free.fr/

Then use the formula:

=REGEX.MID(A1,"\w+",-1)&", "&REGEX.MID(A1,".*(?=\s\w+\W*$)")


--ron