Extracting a middle word in cell without space separation

sergiopcrt

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Hello everyone,

I need to extract the FirstName from cells in a particular format LastName,FirstName MiddleName1 MiddleName2
Note that LastName,FirstName has no space in between, only the comma so I adapted a formula I found on google to:
=MID(A10,SEARCH(",",A10,1)+1,SEARCH(" ",A10,SEARCH(" ",A10,1)+1)-SEARCH(",",A10,1))

but it is still returning FirstName MiddleName1 and other variations return FirstName Mi

From my google searches and in this forum I got no results. Can you help me on this?

Season's greetings!
 

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If you wanted this one can be dragged right and will produce all the names in order:

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($A1,","," ")," ",REPT(" ",LEN($A1))),(COLUMNS($A$1:A1)-1)*LEN($A1)+1,LEN($A1)))
 
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If you wanted this one can be dragged right and will produce all the names in order:

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE($A1,","," ")," ",REPT(" ",LEN($A1))),(COLUMNS($A$1:A1)-1)*LEN($A1)+1,LEN($A1)))
Also very useful, this is like the gourmet version of the previous one :)
 
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