Comments on: Separate Full Name into First & Last Name

By: BrianK

BrianK — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:20:20 +0000

Ajay,
Here is what I tried, to seperate the name, assuming that is a middle name or whatever, use these formulas. We’ll call the location of Ajay Kumar Yadav the “source”
To seperate the parts I’ll call them LeftPart, CenterPart, RightPart

for the LeftPart use:
=LEFT(source,FIND(” “,source)-1)

for the CenterPart use:
=IF(ISERR(FIND(” “,source,1+FIND(” “,source))),”",MID(source,FIND(” “,source)+1,FIND(” “,source,1+FIND(” “,source))-FIND(” “,source)-1))

for the RightPart use:
=IF(ISERR(FIND(” “,source,1+FIND(” “,source))),MID(source,FIND(” “,source)+1,LEN(source)),MID(source,1+FIND(” “,source,1+FIND(” “,source)),LEN(source)))

phew… hope that helps.
Put the formulas in the column where you want to split the name up

By: BrianK

BrianK — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:57:42 +0000

Deb,
for John A. Smith, MD
in ecel 2007 you could use Convert text to table
select space as the delimeter
then you would have them in seperate columns, however it would look as you see it… John A. Smith, MD where each space = new column. Moving the Smith column could be done easily enough or did you need a formula to simply do the whole thing?

By: BrianK

BrianK — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:47:53 +0000

I use this for splitting things such as location/person where I have a timesheet of information and I need to just know the locations/names serperately.

if you have Plant32/Johnson in cell a1, we’ll call a1 the source
….johnson is working in plant32…

for the location:
=left(source,find(“/”,source)-1)
where source is the cell which contains the information you want to split

for the names:
=right(source,(len(source)-find(“/”,source)))
where source is the cell which contains the information you want to split

perhaps there is a different way. i use this to track 15 or so substitute custodians in a school system for time sheet, etc. anyone interested I can e-mail the sheets.

By: Bis

Bis — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:34:12 +0000

To seperate the last name, I use:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(” “,A1))

Sometime the names can appear as FirstName:LastName in stead of a space in-between, so the seperator can be updated in the formula
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“:”,A1))

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:37:25 +0000

I have one, my info is John A. Smith, MD and I need it to be Smith, John A DO or even into indivicual columns, whichever is easier. Anyone able to help me with this? Thanks much for looking!

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:34:29 +0000

if i have name like Ajay Kumar Yadav and i need to separate every name like
Ajay
Kumar
Yadav

Please advise

By: tanya

tanya — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:27:15 +0000

JOHN YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

Thank you so much for the quick response and saving my hours of copy&pasting!!!

By: john

john — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:17:21 +0000

Hi Tanya,

There are many ways to do this, try this:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“,”,A1)-1) &” “&LEFT(A1,FIND(“,”,A1)-1)

You might also want to look into the Text to Columns feature of Excel.

By: tanya

tanya — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:08:54 +0000

thank you for the
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(” “,A1)) &”, “&LEFT(A1,FIND(” “,A1)-1)

formula!

I’m able to “Smith, John” into “John Smith,”. Can you tell me how to remove the comma at the end?

Please and thank you!!
tanya

By: sarina

sarina — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:06:29 +0000

I cut and paste it into 5 cells, but would love to drop it in one cell and then have it broken up into the 5 cells for me or whatever else you can recommend. It comes in that arrangement as written – 3 lines of info.