如何在Excel单元格中删除字符串的一部分？

Question

I have a long list of names (strings) that have extra information in them I don't want in the cell but the extra information is not standard.

How can I remove the extra strings info from these strings?

For example these are a sample of the strings I'm working with:

• Hill, Jeremy CIN RB
• Brown, Jaron ARI WR (I)
• Robinson, Denard JAC RB (O)
• Robinson, Denard JAC RB (Q)
• Dixon, Kenneth BAL RB (R)
• Janovich, Andy DEN RB (R) (I)
• Janovich, Andy DEN RB (R) (O)
• Lasco, Daniel NOS RB (R) (Q)

and I want them all to be just "Last name, First name"

If I use =LEFT(A20,LEN(A20)-7) I won't always get all the extra string, what other formulas can I use?

Cheers!

Answer 1

=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)+1)-1)

Try this formula. this formula finds the position of second space in the string and get everything left of it