Forum Discussion
Name seperation
- Jul 28, 2025
Depending on if other people are going to be looking at it (usually why workplaces prohibit VBA), it's probably best to keep it simple.
Harun24HR's response is a great dynamic spill range solution, but if it's a collaborative sheet with less proficient users, you may want to reduce it to just a textbefore column, and a textafter column:
Threw in a hyphenated surname just to illustrate that won't impact anything. Both formulas are looking for the last instance of a space (-1), and extracting text before/after accordingly.
Depending on if other people are going to be looking at it (usually why workplaces prohibit VBA), it's probably best to keep it simple.
Harun24HR's response is a great dynamic spill range solution, but if it's a collaborative sheet with less proficient users, you may want to reduce it to just a textbefore column, and a textafter column:
Threw in a hyphenated surname just to illustrate that won't impact anything. Both formulas are looking for the last instance of a space (-1), and extracting text before/after accordingly.
This worked perfectly and is simple enough to be idiot proof, thank you!