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

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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