{"id":39,"date":"2012-05-22T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:23:24","slug":"excel-formula-for-pulling-name-from-full-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/excel-formula-for-pulling-name-from-full-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Formula for pulling name from full name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something I have used before and needed to do again today. Within Excel I had a column with full name Joe Smith, and I needed to separate\u00a0the two into their own fields.<\/p>\n<p>For each new field I used the following formula:<\/p>\n<p>Get the first name in Column C from Full name in Column A<\/p>\n<p>[code[=LEFT(A1,FIND(&#8221; &#8220;,A1,1)-1)[\/code]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Get Last name in Column\u00a0D from Full Name in Column A<\/p>\n<p>[code]=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(&#8221; &#8220;,A1,1))[\/code]<\/p>\n<p>I know I will need this again in the future so .. consider it logged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something I have used before and needed to do again today. Within Excel I had a column with full name Joe Smith, and I needed to separate\u00a0the two into their own fields. For each new field I used the following formula: Get the first name in Column C&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/excel-formula-for-pulling-name-from-full-name\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,26],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","tag-excel","tag-formula"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bgeE-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysadminnightmare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}