I know I’ve seen it in the lounge before, because I’ve done it. Unfortunately, I don’t work where I used it anymore and have doubts that I saved the formula on one of my back-up discs which are tucked in my desk at home. I have a column with names formatted Last Name Comma First. I want to extract the last name and put them in their own column. I know that I want to specify anything to the left of the comma is to be extracted, but after that I’m stumped.
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Reverse Concatenate? (Excel 2000)
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H. Legare Coleman
AskWoody PlusSeptember 26, 2003 at 3:44 pm #720563The easiest way to do this is the following:
1- Insert enough empty columns to the right of the names column so that there is an empty column for each possible comma in the names.
2- Select the column that contains the names.
3- Select “Text To Columns…” from the data menu.
4- In the Wizard dialog box, click on Delimited then click the Next button.
5- In the next dialog box, select Comma as the delimiter and deselect all other delimiters.
6- Click on the Finish button.
Your names should now be as you wanted them.
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H. Legare Coleman
AskWoody PlusSeptember 26, 2003 at 3:44 pm #720564The easiest way to do this is the following:
1- Insert enough empty columns to the right of the names column so that there is an empty column for each possible comma in the names.
2- Select the column that contains the names.
3- Select “Text To Columns…” from the data menu.
4- In the Wizard dialog box, click on Delimited then click the Next button.
5- In the next dialog box, select Comma as the delimiter and deselect all other delimiters.
6- Click on the Finish button.
Your names should now be as you wanted them.
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