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marty007
Dec 01, 2021Brass Contributor
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I have a column that contains the Full Name, such as Matthew Groff. I want to change the Full Name column to read Groff, Matthew I wrote the formula =MID(B8,FIND(" ",B8)+1,100)&”,” and this giv...
- Dec 01, 2021
=MID(A3,FIND(" ",A3)+1,100)&";"&LEFT(A3,FIND(" ",A3)-1)
I changed &”,”& to &";"& and it works in my spreadsheet.
OliverScheurich
Dec 01, 2021Gold Contributor
=MID(A3,FIND(" ",A3)+1,100)&";"&LEFT(A3,FIND(" ",A3)-1)
I changed &”,”& to &";"& and it works in my spreadsheet.
- marty007Dec 01, 2021Brass ContributorThis did not work in my spreadsheet. Not sure why.
- mtarlerDec 01, 2021Silver Contributor
marty007 The problem is your curly quotes. Look at the difference in the quotes around the comma (curly style) compared to the rest of the quotes:
Fix those quotes and you will be good.
- marty007Dec 01, 2021Brass ContributorI did that and it worked. I have no idea how I created those "wrong way" quotes. They don't appear on my keyboard. Thanks.