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How to add comma after first word in each cell?

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For instance, you have a list of cell contents, each cell contains several words, what your job is to add comma after first word in these cells as below screenshot shown, how can you quickly solve it? In this tutorial, I introduce some tricks to easily handle this problem.
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Add comma after first word in each cell

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To add comma after the first word in a cell, you can apply one of below formulas

=REPLACE(A1,FIND(" ",A1),0,",")

=SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",", ",1)

=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1)&","&MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1),255)

Select a blank cell, and enter any one of above formulas, and then drag autofill handle down to apply this formula to cells. See screenshot:
use formulas to add comma after first word

Note: In above formulas, A1 is the cell you want to add comma after the first word, you can change it as you need.

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