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How to easily and quickly move first word to end in Excel?

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2020-09-22

In some special cases, you may want to move the first word to the end as below screenshot shown in Excel, and here I have a formula to quickly solve this job without manually moving.
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Move first word to end by formula

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To move the first word to end, you can apply a simple formula.

Select a cell that will place the result, type this formula =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1))&" "&LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1), and press Enter key. See screenshot:
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Then drag fill handle over the cells you need to apply this formula.
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