Splitting cells at an empty space

Useful for separating first and last names

Fred Savage Fred Savage

David Ough
Brian Adams
Ken Mercurio
Jim Leslie LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1) RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1))
Darrol Groven Formula finds the first space, Formula finds the first space,
Brian Aanestad returning everything before it. returning everything after it.
Donald Dusette
Steve Bacon In order to use the formula for multiple rows, just drag the cell down
Steve Thompson to those rows (place the cursor over the bottom right hand corner,
Jeffrey Bernards when a "+" appears, left click and pull the cell down the desired
Steve Allen number of rows).
Sloan Bailey
Tom Schwan Next, highlight the rows copy them, then do a paste special|values.
Steve Fredette This is done buy clicking on edit|paste special. In the dialog box
Donny Zitterow which appears, select values and click ok.
Meir Amsalam
Ed Cyr
Jim Lash
Michelle Rickard
Split Cells Join Cells
Erbie Daw
Greg Marustan
Ray Larsen I've also created a VBA program to do the same thing, just highlight
Bob Main the cells in which you want to split the names. Then click on the
Tim Vititoe "Split Cells" button, above. To rejoin cells, highlight the cells you wish
Houston Blair to rejoin and click the "Join Cells" button, above.
Brian Aanestad
Tim Ahern
Jeff Bernards **note: If these macros are not working, you may need to change
Alan Brandt the macro security setting. Do this by going to Tools|Macro|Security.
David Buchanan Select the medium radio button in the dialog box. You will then need
Jim Cady to close the workbook and re-open it.
Gregory Clayton If you'd like to use these macros in any workbook you may have
Shane Cooper open, let me know and I'll show you how to put them in your personal
George Delano workbook.
Scott Denton
Gerry Dorfman
Todd Edwards
Kevin Elliss
Chuck Freinht
Don Gainer
Curtis Gilley
Ron Grey
Don Grock
Darrol Groven
Anna Hewitt
Bob Hollingsworth
Jerry Jensen
Denniss Jites
Jeff Jones
Bernard Kamine
Terry King
Mark Kosin
Al Kraemer
Jim Lash
Mark Love
Justin Malloy
Bill Marcotte
Bob Martz
Tom Mendenhall
Ken Mercurio
Tom Nolan
Tom Pavlich
Roger Peters
Michael Prlich
Kurt Rexius
Tim Rivard
Mitch Roberts
Chris Roncoe
Tom Schwah
Vicki Sewell
Mitch Tomovich
Michael Urbanski
Joe Valverde
Tony Vedova
Eric Wilson
Paul Zollezzi
Randy Douglas
Maynard Milva
Staci Baratti
Gus Bruner
John Shannon