retrieving names LN, FN, MN

[rcahayag1925]

Dear All,

I have a list of names, as indicated below "ORIGINAL". What i wanted from this source data, is to rearranged it from Last name, First name, and Middle names
that will work for all types of names. SInce some of the names has one, or two names, while the last contains upto three names.

Thanks

ORIGINAL SHOULD BE
RIO R. ALCANTARA 1 ALCANTARA, Rio R.
RICARDO D. ANTIPOLO 2 ANTIPOLO, Ricardo D.
MARY JOY N. DURAN-MORTEL 3 DURAN-MORTEL, Mary Joy N.
AURELIO L. EXALTACION JR. 4 EXALTACION, Aurelio Jr. L.
DOMINI N. FAÑGON-KITADE 5 FAÑGON-KITADE, Domini N.
KRISTINE MARGRET M. MALANG 6 MALANG, Kristine Margret M.
EVANGELINE T. ONG JIMENEZ-DUCROCQ 7 ONG JIMENEZ-DUCROCQ, Evangeline T.

[shukla.ankur281190]

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[Glenn Kennedy]

Hopefully, your expected answer for No 4 is incorrect!!

=TRIM(MID(A3,SEARCH(".",A3)+1,255))&", "&PROPER(LEFT(A3,SEARCH(".",A3)-1))&"."

[rcahayag1925]

Thanks so much shukla.ankur281190

[alansidman]

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[Rick Rothstein]

Here is a more compact formula that you can consider...

=MID(A3&", "&A3,FIND(".",A3)+2,LEN(A3)+1)

[rcahayag1925]

thanks for the help Rick

[rcahayag1925]

thanks for the reminder, alansidman

[rcahayag1925]

thanks Glenn