How To Separate Last Name First Name In Excel?

Select the cells containing the full names

Go to the Data tab

Click Text to Columns

Choose Delimited and click Next

Select Space as the delimiter and click Next

Choose the destination cells if needed

Click Finish

If the name is in one cell as Last Name, First Name, use a formula to split it

To get the last name, use `=LEFT(A1,FIND(“,”,A1)-1)`

To get the first name, use `=TRIM(MID(A1,FIND(“,”,A1)+1,LEN(A1)))`

Copy the formulas down for all rows

If needed, copy and paste values to replace formulas with text

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