I’m back with a puzzle it wouldn’t have occurred to me to even attempt if I hadn’t seen some miraculous-seeming formulas early on in my Airtable forays. I sell books that I inherited from my dad. In my Books table, there’s an Author field that sometimes lists names first then last (Mark Twain) and sometimes lists names last, first (Twain, Mark). There’s no consistency. The thing is that there are different circumstances that call for different formatting.
So my modest dream for this situation is to have two additional fields, both formula fields, obviously:
First Last
Last, First
This will allow me to rollup one way for online marketplace inventory submissions (first last) and another way for professional association catalogs (last, first). I’m guessing making note of the comma will be an integral part of these formulas. Am I wrong to think this is a puzzle that can be solved on Airtable? TIA for your puzzling skills!