Best way to split out text in following format

Sundance_Kid

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
I have text in the following format:

Clinton\Bill Jefferson
Trump\ Donald

What I want to do (ideally without a macro as my skills are non-existent) is change both names so they appear as:

Bill Clinton
Donald Trump

However, as you see in one instance there is only one first name - Donald where as in the other example there is a first and second name - Bill Jefferson - and I want it to only pull the first name.

Thanks.
 

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Fluff.xlsm
AB
1
2Clinton\Bill JeffersonBill Clinton
3Trump\ DonaldDonald Trump
Sheet6
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2:B3B2=TEXTJOIN(" ",,CHOOSECOLS(TEXTSPLIT(A2,{"\","\ "," "}),2,1))
Thank you Fluffy, very helpful. I don’t know how you figure these formulas out 😀.

One related question, if the name was in the format
O Dwyer\ Michael the formula would return Dwyer O rather than Michael Dwyer.

Is there a way to build into the original formula that in instances like that, it returns Michael Dwyer rather than Dwyer O?

Thank you
 
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How about
Excel Formula:
=TEXTBEFORE(TRIM(TEXTAFTER(A2,"\"))," ",,,1)&" "&TEXTAFTER(TEXTBEFORE(A2,"\")," ",-1,,1)
 
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