URL: Debbie Mayo-Smith: Big payoff from five-minute investment
New Zealand Herald
...$6923.08 in salaried time... This figure represents two individuals, one on $70k per year, the other at $50k, both spending three full working weeks splitting first and last names apart manually, one by one by one in a huge Excel spread sheet. The pity is that instead of three weeks and two staff members the entire project could have been accomplished with three clicks of a mouse, by one person. What a shame that neither had known about the simple Excel function 'Text to Columns' (or asked around)...
