Now that we have the first name $($along with the comma and space$),$ let's tweak the starting position to clean up the output.

You will want to add two to the starting position, which is being found by the SEARCH function. This moves the starting position to the right.

Modify your previous $=$MID$($a$1,$ SEARCH$(",",$ a$1),99999)$ formula to just get the first name.