Help... I've done something like this before where I had a names entered in to the same cell, but they always had spaces between the first and last or first, middle, last.
This time around I'm looking at 15,000 entries where it's a capitalized middle initial immediately followed by the capitalized last name... The only caveat is that not all cells have the middle initial. See table below for an example.
The best way to do this would be to ask it IF second character is UPPERCASE, then put the First letter in Cell C, and all the rest of the text in Cell D.
I've been struggling with this for a few hours and finally gave up. I know it should be possible but I'm getting increasingly frustrated.
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This time around I'm looking at 15,000 entries where it's a capitalized middle initial immediately followed by the capitalized last name... The only caveat is that not all cells have the middle initial. See table below for an example.
The best way to do this would be to ask it IF second character is UPPERCASE, then put the First letter in Cell C, and all the rest of the text in Cell D.
I've been struggling with this for a few hours and finally gave up. I know it should be possible but I'm getting increasingly frustrated.
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[/TD][TD]AJenkins[/TD]
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[/TD][TD]Jones[/TD]
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[/TD][TD]SJones[/TD]
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[TD]Jones[/TD]
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[/TD][TD]MWeaver[/TD]
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[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]Weaver[/TD]
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[/TD][TD]DWatkins[/TD]
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[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]Watkins[/TD]
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[/TD][TD]Williams[/TD]
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