Split field in two using comma (for name)

[michellep]

I have an excel spreadsheet that I imported into Access, and there is a
Name field in the format of last name, first name. I'd like to break
this into 2 separate fields. How can I do this?
TIA!

[fredg]

On 25 Feb 2005 16:05:15 -0800, mi*******@stupid.com wrote:

I have an excel spreadsheet that I imported into Access, and there is a
Name field in the format of last name, first name. I'd like to break
this into 2 separate fields. How can I do this?
TIA!

As long as all of the data is in the form of
LastName, FirstName then:

[LastName] = Left([FullName],InStr([FullName],",")-1)
[FirstName] = Mid([FullName],InStr([FullName],",")+2)
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[Mark G. King]

There are 3rd party utilities that can handle this for Microsoft Access.
Take a look at this one which I have used to parse first name from last
name.

http://www.infoplan.com.au/splitter
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I have an excel spreadsheet that I imported into Access, and there is a
Name field in the format of last name, first name. I'd like to break
this into 2 separate fields. How can I do this?
TIA!