Reversing Names In Place

As long as the selected cells are contiguous, you can use this one-liner to produce the same results as this article's code does...

Sub ReverseNames()

Selection = Evaluate(Replace("IF(@="""","""",MID(@&"", ""&@,FIND("" "",@)+1,LEN(@)+1))", "@", Selection.Address))

End Sub

@Bryan,
It seems as if your suggested formula can be shorten a little bit:

=MID(C3,FIND(" ",C3)+1,LEN(C3))&" "&LEFT(C3,FIND(",",C3)-1)

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Michael (Micky) Avidan
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Left out how to use the formula to do what George wants.
I often make a Tab called Raw
In this I keep all the original data such as George receives from others. Then on my Work or production tab, I use a formula to pull from Raw the data I need. Once I have my starting data correctly, I either run it using the formula or I copy paste/special values to fix it as needed.

Both doing this and using macro's have good points/bad points. Personally, modifying raw data is just asking for Humpty Dumpty to go splat on your data.

The macro is modifying the data. If that is what you want, it is a good way to do it. If however, you do not want to modify the underlying data. Then this formula will reverse the names. (It would reside in a different cell / space.)
Assume name is in C3

=TRIM(RIGHT(C3,LEN(C3)-FIND(",",C3)) & " " & LEFT(C3,FIND(",",C3)-1))

* This also removes the comma *

Thank you Peter, works a treat.

@Santo & & Jim

Change the line
s = n(UBound(n)) & ","

to
s = n(UBound(n))

Hi,

I use the below macro to reverse a given string of words in the selection. This can be applied not only on names, but any string of words.

Sub Reverse_string_of_words()

Dim Cell As Range
Dim lSpacePosition As Long
Dim sLastName As String
Dim namex As String

For Each Cell In Selection
sLastName = ""
namex = Trim(Cell.Value2)
Do While InStrRev(namex, " ") > 0
lSpacePosition = InStrRev(namex, " ")
sLastName = sLastName & " " & Mid$(namex, lSpacePosition + 1)
namex = Left$(namex, lSpacePosition - 1)
Loop
Cell.Value2 = Trim(sLastName & " " & namex)

Next Cell

End Sub

I have the same Query as Jim, is it possible to remove the comma's?

Is it possible to remove the commas?

Here is a way to avoid using arrays:

Sub ReverseNames()

Dim Cell As Range
Dim lSpacePosition As Long
Dim sFirstName As String
Dim sLastName As String

For Each Cell In Selection
lSpacePosition = InStrRev(Cell.Value2, " ")

sFirstName = Left$(Cell.Value2, lSpacePosition - 1)
sLastName = Mid$(Cell.Value2, lSpacePosition + 1)

Cell.Value2 = sLastName & ", " & sFirstName
Next Cell

End Sub

Here is a shorter version of the macro:

Sub ReverseNames()
Dim c As Range, n As Variant, s As String
For Each c In Selection
n = Split(c)
s = n(UBound(n)) & ", "
n(UBound(n)) = ""
c.Value = Trim(s & Join(n))
Next c
End Sub

Anyhow both my version and the one in this tip cannot cope with names such as 'Eddie Van Halen' or 'Jean de la Croix'.