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Andrew has attended:
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Working with large lists of data

If i had 'Mr Adam Long' in one cell, is it possible to write a formula to get 'Mr Long'.

Concatenate adds cells together but this is not what i need to do. Need to do this very soon for a mail merge.

Many thanks

RE: Working with large lists of data

Hi Andrew, thanks for your query. The following link will show you how to chop the name up, but you'll still need to concatenate the title and surname to get what you want:

http://www.exceltip.com/st/Extract_the_first ,_middle_and_last_name_in_Microsoft_Excel/370.html

Hope this helps,

Anthony

Tue 29 Dec 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.


 

Excel tip:

Bracketed negative numbers

Often Excel users wish to display negative numbers in colour red and bracketed

Intstructions
Step1. Select Format > Cells menu options. Within Numbers tabsheet, select Category = Custom.
Step 2. Select a type such as #,##0;[Red]-#,##0;; that specifies a colour in square brackets.
Step 3. Amend as follows; #,##0;[Red](#,##0;;

Notes: Excel formatting featues are of the form
"Positive; Negative;Zero;Text" separated by semicolon.

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