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Hi My Online Training Hub Experts,

In my text project, Can you update to put a formula in the prefix column to reflect a prefix such as Mr. Mrs. Miss, Dr. etc.  Also I would like to update the formula in the last name column so that it will have a hypen between two last names, but not between the last name and "Jr. or IV".  I appreciate your help on this issue.  Hope all is well and safe.  Thank you.  Joe, from Michigan.

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Doesn’t seem to be a great deal to work off

I can’t see a way to assign Mr/Mrs/Miss etc as its not in the data as we don’t even know the sex of the person to have a guess at Ms or Mr.

The Hyphen part is maybe possible but not particularly tidy or effective - the below works out if the last part of the name is less than 4 characters and then insets a - for any names longer.

=IFERROR(IF(LEN([@[Last Name]])-FIND(" ",[@[Last Name]])>4,SUBSTITUTE([@[Last Name]]," ","-"),""),"")

So, if we have a name like Smith Ike this would miss them out and also not sure if Mark Gorteski Junior should be hyphenated or not?

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Hi Purfleet,

Thanks for responding to my post.  I'll add the Mr. and Mrs, etc to the data.  The formula you provided me resulted in a 0 in the last name column.  Joe, from Michigan.

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It cant go in the Last Name column as that is the columns with the starting data. I put it at the end.

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Thanks Purfleet for your help and time.....works good.

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No problems, but be careful with it - its not a perfect fix

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