How to split a column in two?

[EduPAz]

Hi,

I have in column D a list of employees names and last names:

Mark Jones
Tom Smith
Robert Brown Lewis

I need to split the names and last names and create two columns:
[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Names
[/TD]
[TD]Last names
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mark
[/TD]
[TD]Jones
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tom
[/TD]
[TD]Smith
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Robert
[/TD]
[TD]Brown Lewis
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Can someone please help me?

Thanks,

Edu

 

[Joe4]

In the case of "Robert Brown Lewis", you are taking just "Robert" for first name, but then both "Brown" and "Lewis" for Last names.
But what if you had something like "Mary Ann Cooper", where they have two words in the first name, and one only for the Last name?

The point is, if you have more than two words, Excel cannot really tell which should have two words, and which should have one.
It is very literal, and can only perform the exact rules that you set up. And it isn't really possible to come up with any rule that will handle every case perfectly.

If it was me, I would probably use "Text to Columns" to split the data every time it finds a space. So some entries may have 3 or 4 columns.
I would then manually fix/clean-up the ones with more than two columns after the fact.