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    Truncating part of string to the left of a character

    I have a column of strings that look like "Firstname, Lastname"

    I'd like to delete "First name, " (including the comma and the space) leaving only "Lastname". Is there a way to do this without a macro? I know how to delete the leftmost n characters, but don't know how to delete everything to left of a character.

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    Re: Truncating part of string to the left of a character

    A1: Firstname, LastName

    B1: =MID(A1, FIND(",", A1)+2, LEN(A1))
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    Re: Truncating part of string to the left of a character

    You could split names by using the convert Text to Column Wizard and then delete the column you don't want.

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    Re: Truncating part of string to the left of a character

    Thanks to JBeaucaire and WSkip. I used MBeacuaire's method, which worked perfectly but I will try WSkip's another time.

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    Re: Truncating part of string to the left of a character

    If that takes care of your need, please click EDIT in your original post, click GO ADVANCED and set the PREFIX box to SOLVED.

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