Select the column in your Excel spreadsheet containing the full names you want to split. Go to the Data tab and click Text to Columns in the Data Tools group. Select Delimited and click Next.

The Excel TEXTSPLIT function can split text strings by using row or column delimiters. Learn how to use the new TEXTSPLIT () function in Excel.

1] Using the Text to column button Select the column or select one or more cells, ensure that the cells you have selected are in the same column, or else the process won’t work.