On Mar 21, 2011, at 22:14 , Stefan Weigel wrote: > Hi, > > Am 21.03.2011 17:59, schrieb James Wilde: > >> I have a calc sheet with full names in one column, thus: >> >> John Smith >> Jane Smollett >> >> I want to create a column with forenames and one with surnames. > > No need for formulae. > > Have a look at: "Data | Text to Columns..." > > See: http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Text_to_Columns > Thanks, Stefan, that could have done the hard work for me if I had known about it. Good to know for next time, too, as it will certainly come up again. To be sure I would have had a few strange results, since some names include more than one space (the separator) if, for example, a person has two forenames which are not hyphenated, or two surnames, but there aren't so many of them that they couldn't have been handled manually.
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