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How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

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    How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel
    Can you walk me through exactly what to do? I copy and pasted the formula suggested in a previous play and pasted it in the cell I wanted to reverse the order and I received this error #VALUE!

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    can you give more information? where are the names stored, and where do you want to display them?
    uploading a sample spreadsheet could help

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    With data in A1 try:

    =REPLACE(A1 & " " & LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1),1,FIND(",",A1)+1,"")
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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    OK, Here is what I'm working with Nicky. I do play-by-play for HS Football games and the roster the coach sent me is Last name, First name and I want to reverse it to First, Last. Can you help. I'm not to knowledgeable about macros or the advance formulas of Excel so I will need the instructions explained in a lot of detail if possible.
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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    Hi
    Jakobshavn's formula should work - just replace A1 with B2 and copy down the column

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    Do I just type it in over the names or what do i need to do? Told you I had no clue.

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    in a cell in an empty column, such as K2, copy this variation on Jakobshavn's formula:

    =REPLACE(B2 & " " & LEFT(B2,FIND(",",A1)-1),1,FIND(",",B2)+1,"")

    it will return "Andre Harton" if your sheet has "Harton, Andre" in cell B2

    copy this formula down into as many rows as there are names to transpose - to cell K49 in this example

    if you want to overwrite the values that are already in column B, copy the range with the formulas in (K2:k49), select cell B2 and select
    paste special > paste value

    (if you copy the formulas you will get an error - it must be the values)

    Repeat the process for the names in column G, changing B2 to G2 in the formula for the first cell

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    This is all I get

    #VALUE!

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    try this

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    ok, YOU GUYS TOTALLY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thank for all the help

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    no problem. remember to mark it solved and star tap those that help

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    Re: How do I reverse name order from Last, First to First Last in excel spread sheet

    I hit the star but how do I mark it solved.

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