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Function needed to split the content of a cell intomany cells

  Asked By: Luane    Date: Dec 07    Category: MS Office    Views: 837
  

To Separate First and Last Name from the List

Solution:

To retrieve the first name use the LEFT and FIND functions as shown in the
following formula:

=LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2))

To retrieve the last name use the RIGHT, LEN, and FIND functions as shown in
the following formula:

=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND(" ",A2))

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Answer #1    Answered By: Alexis Castillo     Answered On: Dec 07

Iam trying to find  some function  that can split  the content  of a cell  into
many cells.In short a function that does reverse process as that of
"Concatenate" function.

 
Answer #2    Answered By: Dot net Sachin     Answered On: Dec 07

A simple method.

Select the cells  that contain the data.Go to DATA menu ->TEXT TO COLUMNS.Use the
delimiter as it appears in your data. i.e. space/tab etc.The datas in one cell
will automatically converted into different cells.

 




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