Extract the last substring from a cell

Question

I have names in a column. I need to split just the last names from that column into another column.

The last name is delimited by a space from the right side.

Answer 1

RIGHT return whatever number of characters in the second parameter from the right of the first parameter. So, you want the total length of your column A - subtract the index. which is therefore:

=RIGHT(A2, LEN(A2)-FIND(" ", A2, 1))

And you should consider using TRIM(A2) everywhere it appears...