Question

I have a FullName column in Excel. The data in this column looks like LastName, FirstName.

I need to add a second column “AccountID” where I need to concatenate First Initial and lastName.

For example, Smith, John should be jSmith

I tried Left(fullname) but it will not work

Answer 1

You can use the FIND command to find the location of the comma. From there, you can use MID and LEFT to extract the first initial and last name. Throw it all together, and you get:

=MID(A1, FIND(",",A1) + 2,1) & LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1)