Flip/Flop

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Angie M.

Hi,

I'm working with Excel 2003. I have a column that contains First Name,
space, Last name. I need it to contain Last Name, comma, space, First name.
I've searched through the other questions/answers and tried a few things
myself (like Text to columns) with no luck.

Is there anyway this can be done other than retyping?? I can create a new
column to hold the data and then delete the old one if necessary, I just need
to fix about 1100 rows and then from there I will enter it the correct way in
the first place.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Hi Angie,

If cell A1 contains "Red Ferrari" this formula will return "Ferrari, Red"

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

Ed Ferrero
 
Thanks, that worked perfectly! I just realized that I need to turn the
result of the formula into text now, so I will create another blank column to
the right and convert the results of the formula into text. How do I do
that??

Thanks again, Ed.
 
Hi Angie,
Thanks, that worked perfectly! I just realized that I need to turn the
result of the formula into text now, so I will create another blank column
to
the right and convert the results of the formula into text. How do I do
that??
Click to expand...

The formula does return text. If you want Text in a cell instead of a
formula, Copy, Paste Special, Values.

Ed Ferrero
www.edferrero.com
 
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