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Always get 1st name (or last)

Posted on July 23, 2022 By ANmar

Formula to get first name from 2 formats either (Lastname, First) or (Firstname Last) formats.

You can then have a formula to show it in the format you need.

This one uses an old technique using function ISERROR, since it was created before the formula IFERROR was added to Excel. I bet we can have a better version now 🙂

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