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    Formula to extract certain data

    Hello, I have an excel spreadsheet that have multiple cells that contain the following; last name, first name, middle name. I am using the following formula to extract only the last name, first name. This works great however there are a few cells that only originally contain the last and first name and don't have a middle name so it's showing a #Value with those ones
    =LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2,FIND(",",A2)+1)-1)
    Any idea how to modify this formula to include those names that dont have a middle name to get rid of? thank you in advance.

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    Re: Formula to extract certain data

    How about:
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    Re: Formula to extract certain data

    Perfect, thank you so much.

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