While using Microsoft Excel, you can split a single column into separate columns based on cell contents. As the below screenshot shown, you can split full names in a column to first, middle and last name columns separately as you need.
Here we will recommend you a Split Names utility of Kutools for Excel, with this utility, you can easily split full names in a column to first, middle and last name columns at once, and it will enhance your work efficiency.
Split first, middle and last names of full name in Excel
Supposing you have a list of full names which include first, middle and last names in range A2:A10. For easily splitting these full names into separate columns, please do as follows.
1. Please select the name cells you will split, and click Kutools > Merge & Split > Split Names to enable the Split Names dialog box.
2. In the Split Names dialog box, check the First name, Middle name and the Last name boxes as you need, and then click the OK button.
Tips: (1) Besides splitting the first, middle and last names together, you can only split one of them by just checking the corresponding option. (2) If you didn't select the name cells in the first step, you can click the Browse button behind the Range to Split box to select the name cells.
3. Select a specified cell which you want the separated data locates, then click the OK button.
You will see the selected full names are separated to first, middle and last names immediately and located in the specified columns. See screenshot:
Notes
1. This utility supports Undo (Ctrl + Z).
2. In the Split Names dialog, you can click the share icon to share this feature to your friend via email or social medias, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Weibo.
Demo: split or separate first, middle and last names of full name in Excel
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Hi. I have an excel issue. I have the following in one cell. "JohnDoe" I need to separate the first name and last name into two columns. The first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name are capitalized. How can I do this?
Example:
JohnDoe ---- Need it to be John Doe
MichaelJordan ---- Need it to be Michael Jordan
TomSmith ---- Need it to be Tom Smith
I have a spreadsheet and every 6th line has a county name, state, and other information. I need to extract just the county name and place it 5 lines down in column A, e.g., B22 = Clinton County, ILLINOIS, EPA Region5. Only the word 'Clinton' needs to be extracted and then pasted to A26. There are 549 rows of data, each county is 6 rows.
[quote name="Barnett Frankel"]I have a spreadsheet and every 6th line has a county name, state, and other information. I need to extract just the county name and place it 5 lines down in column A, e.g., B22 = Clinton County, ILLINOIS, EPA Region5. Only the word 'Clinton' needs to be extracted and then pasted to A26. There are 549 rows of data, each county is 6 rows.[/quote] Can you please try to create some sample data in new workbook?
Please attached the workbook in your email with detailed informaiton via jaychivo@extendoffice.com
behind the Range to Split box to select the name cells.
to share this feature to your friend via email or social medias, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Weibo.
