How to Combine First and Last Name Ignoring Middle Name in Microsoft Excel
If you have a list of names in all sort of different formats & you are supposed to quickly extract a list of names; in case you are facing a similar problem in combining first & last name without middle name or initial then this article is for you. In this article, we will learn how to combine first & last name in different formats.
Question): I tried so many formulas to combine in order to extract first & last name only from full name after skipping middle name & the problem is the list of names is not in the same format otherwise it will be a lot easier; the format of name is different to other one.
Following is the snapshot of data we have; the first column has full name & the second column has the preferred output:
In this way, we can separate first & last name from one cell & then extract in another cell meeting set of name formats.
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