Text Split with Excel Formula – Part I

It always happens that you need to use text to column feature in excel. for some it’s rare but from some it’s everyday exercise. Think about the advantages that you will get if you can split text with formulas.

Let’s see how you can do that with example:

If you have a string ‘Firstname Lastname’, in A3 how you will separate this text with formulas so that you will have firstname and lastname in separate columns.

There are two formulas involved.

Left and right

How to Use left formula for fisrtname:
the main factor in this formula is finding out the string length of the firstname as it will vary. The solution is find out the place of separator (space in given example)

The formula for given example will be… =left(A3,find(” “,A3,1))

Now the difficult part of it that is the right formula use for lastname:
here as well the main factor is finding out the length of the string lastname as it will also vary everytime. so to find out the length we will first find out the place of separator (space in given example) and reduce it from the total length.

The formula for given example will be… =right(A3,len(A3)-find(” “,A3,1))

In next part we will see how can we use the formulas to split text “Firstname Middlename Lastname”.