» Extracting a substring
CATEGORY - Excel Formula and Function
VERSION - All Microsoft Excel Versions
Listed in column A are full or first names.
How could we create a new column B containing the first names extracted from each name in column A?
Solution:
Using the FIND, RIGHT and LEN text category functions in this IF statement:
=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("","",A2)),RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("","",A2)-1),A2)
Example:
Names_______________First Names
Bush, George________George
Seinfeld, Jerry_____Jerry
Jordan, Michael_____Michael
Laura_______________Laura
Kate________________Kate
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